THOM SOUTHERN is very pleased to present the official video for his latest track: “Love Hz”.
An artful and atmospheric accompaniment that couples charismatic performance clips with black-and-white shots of Thom traveling by rail between Belfast and Dublin, the wistful new video for “Love Hz” is available to view now.
Also released today, Thom is delighted to share a nostalgic lyric video custom-made for “Love Hz”. Featuring delicate handwritten notes that feel like a snapshot into an anguished and ardent love letter, they capture the song’s fragile intimacies on another level altogether. Tune in HERE
“Love Hz” is a one-off release from the enigmatic Belfast songsmith that is Thom Southern. His first new material since his NI Music Prize-nominated first album ‘Plaza’, it’s a song of unadorned and unassuming beauty that tells a tale of a doomed romance. As Southern explains:
“”Love Hz” is the track that started it all with this direction. It’s a simple folk song about the pain of heartache and not only the loss of that person in your life but the loss of who you were when you were with them.”
Written on a visit to see the artist, producer and pal Stevie Scullion (AKA Malojian) in Antrim Town, the pair created “Love Hz” at his home studio back in 2021. Devising its knotty acoustic riffs, spiraling backwards guitar licks, and rattling percussive stutters, Thom put the finishing touches to the song in Bangor, NI earlier this year.
A track that turns a decisive corner from the atmospheric alt/rock leanings of his debut, the laid-back stylistics and loquacious narrative of “Love Hz” are said to hint at a new direction for the songwriter.
“The music I really want to make and have the most fun making is the more lo-fi acoustic stuff… I feel like that’s where I’m at now” he adds.
Deftly joining the dots between the Greenwich village style storytelling of Simon & Garfunkel with the slacker/folk day-dreamings of Kurt Vile or Alex G, by way of Beck’s alt-acoustic expressionism; “Love Hz” is an uncut gem that will ensnare listeners in its fractious tenderness and raw, unfiltered elegance.