St. Lucia Share New Single ‘Falling Asleep’
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Led by husband-and-wife duo St. Lucia, comprised of South Africa-born Jean-Philip Grobler and Germany-born Patti Beranek, share their brand new single Falling Asleep, a retro-infused indie-pop/rock song!
What I like the most about this song is its feel good vibes and how much energy it radiates, instantly getting me in a good mood and excited to want to share it with you guys. Falling Asleep marks the band's return with a sound that blends their signature synth-pop with the psychedelic artistry of the 1960s and 1970s. Inspired by the likes of David Bowie, Electric Light Orchestra, and the cinematic grandeur of Ennio Morricone, Falling Asleep transports listeners on a dreamy, spiritual quest.
With this song St. Lucia invite listeners to take a beat, reflect and embrace the uncoventional, a positive message beautifully delivered through their passionate, expressive vocals and dreamy harmonies. Apart from their vocals and memorable strings, I am particularly fond of the groovy bass throughout the song which is nicely paired with cool beat and guitars that create an overall blissful, feel-good atmosphere perfect for a fun weekend!
As St. Lucia explains,
Co-directed by Grobler and Xander Ferreira, the Falling Asleep music video is a surreal, dreamlike visual that feels like a unique mash-up of the artistry from Salvador Dalí and Wes Anderson.
The lyrics have a lot to do with our modern malady of never allowing ourselves to rest and always being busy. All this stress isn't worth it. Allow yourself to take a break, go on a journey and be a little crazy and unselfconscious about the results.
Co-directed by Grobler and Xander Ferreira, the Falling Asleep music video is a surreal, dreamlike visual that feels like a unique mash-up of the artistry from Salvador Dalí and Wes Anderson.
St. Lucia reveals,
The video for 'Falling Asleep' is our first official step into the new visual world of St. Lucia. Created on a trip to South Africa in April with our dear friend Xander Ferreira (who is also South African), it’s the first time we’ve taken our visuals into our own hands and directed and produced the whole thing ourselves (along with the help of a few other very talented people we met along the way). We’d been developing our film skills by trying to create elevated social media content using ’nice’ cameras and not just iPhones, and this just forced us to delve even deeper into the filmmaking process. Growing up, my mother was a documentary-filmmaker and I went on many shoots with her, sometimes doing sound, and I often remember her editing late into the night, so in some way it felt like deja vu to be walking in her footsteps (she helped us produce the shoot). Thankfully, Xander had done a lot of film work during his career and so we were able to combine our skills and the knowledge we’d gained to figure it out. As a location we considered many places, but in the end we chose mine & Xander’s home country of South Africa because of our connection to the land and the resonance we had with it.