Watch the video for Contour’s chaos-seeking pole-dancing ‘Paradise Lost’

The Dublin twosome of Anna Doran and Conan Wynne dropped their recent Contour EP Blessed With Weird Things on Champion Sound Records. It features the previously-featured track ‘Rearrange & Realign’. Today, Nialler9 is premiering the Paul Mahon-made video for the EP track ‘Paradise Lost’, a title which has personal connontations for Doran as well as being a reference to Lord Of The Flies as she explains of the video and track.

“Paradise Lost references the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding as it is about our tendency as human beings towards destructiveness. I worked very hard to break the cycle of self-destruction that I had been locked in since my teens and yet when I finally achieved calm and happiness I found myself craving some chaos. In Golding’s story, the young men land in Paradise but then participate in their Utopia becoming a Dystopia as a result of encountering “the beast”. It’s similar to how I have observed myself doing little things to sabotage my life when it was near perfect. The beast is always lurking within. He is that internal persecutor that attacks and preys upon our vulnerabilities. It’s the force that abuses us or pushes us into abusive situations, and it doesn’t take well to us being brave, confident or independent. Once we meet the beast we have to acknowledge it and I’ve been working on integrating this part of myself in healthy and creative ways. You bite the bullet and channel it and don’t let it fuck things up for you. The video shows this struggle, and how the beast can be set free in the dance. It’s a beautiful expression of that energy.”

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Niall Byrne

Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.

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