Melbourne / Naarm writer and producer James Seymour, working under the name Feelds, today releases the new single, ‘Sweet Tooth’: a gently sweeping track replete with an anthemic rush over dappling acoustic guitars and soaring vocals.
Seymour’s vocals exhibit an impressive range, filled with yearning and ache, perfectly coasting over the music which rolls like green fields. The result is something pastoral and bucolic – reflecting the bright summer sun and wide open endless skies yet tinged with a little darkness and cloud at the edges.
The songs – as with many creative endeavours these days – grew out of the strictures of lockdown in Melbourne and developed as a result of a dare to follow certain parameters set by a friend. Seymour says:
For this particular session, the prompts were: ‘have to use acoustic guitars as the lead guitars’, and ‘must include the phrase “sweet tooth”. Peter’s track was excellent and so, so different – but I decided to persist with mine to finish the production, with the help of Peter on drums. The song itself is a hypothetical about people in power becoming obsessed with things that don’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. It explores them being blinded by things like greed & an obsession for more.
The track is accompanied by a video shot, edited and directed by Rick Clifford – gorgeously shot and with Seymour exhibiting some smooth moves in his glittering shorts, with a blank, distant expression and a great deal of enigmatic style. The video depicts the protagonist embracing a thirst for
expression and breaking free from societal norms:
‘Sweet Tooth’ is out now and available to download and stream via all the usual channels.
Feature Photograph: Rick Clifford
