- 2024-12-22
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MUSIC
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Tears For Fears Drops New Music Video for “Rivers Of Mercy”
British pop rock band Tears For Fears, consisting of Roland Orzabal (vocals/guitar) and Curt Smith (bass/vocals), dropped a new music video for “Rivers Of Mercy” directed by Aloka Gent on December 20, 2024.
The song is featured on their seventh studio album “The Tipping Point”, which was released in February 2022.
The band started making the album in 2013, but the project endured numerous delays and the death of Roland Orzabal's wife, which influenced many of the songs on the album. Most of the album was completed in 2020 and 2021.
Track is a tender ballad that delves into the emotional landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic and the societal upheaval experienced during the summer of 2020.
The track was written by Roland Orzabal, Charlton Pettus, and Doug Petty. Produced by Tears For Fears and Charlton Pettus.
The band said, “A surprise gift for you, from us. The official music video for Rivers of Mercy is out now on Youtube. Happy holidays.”- Roland Orzabal said of the song, “My wife is acutely aware of the struggles we had early on in the record, and acutely aware of us working with all kinds of people. And she sort of scratched her head one day and said, 'Why aren't you making writing songs with your own band? Why aren't you making songs with your own band, because they're amazing.' I said, 'Oh, well, not bad idea.' So I was around, we have a keyboard player called Doug Petty, extremely talented, and he got together with Charlton Pettus and did a kind of almost like a woman in chains back in front. And it was very slow and beautiful. I sort of took it away, and again, this was at the beginning of the pandemic and it was during the riots, you had this incredible piece of music that evoked peace, that evoke the sort of the desire to close the door, pull the curtains tight, and just forget about the world, or in any evoked images of the sea, and the sort of being able to let yourself be taken by the sea or by the river, and in a sense, surrendering. And it was just very strange, because in lockdown number one, there I was in the west country of England with this most incredible Mediterranean weather. It was beautiful, and you couldn't go anywhere, and you couldn't do anything. And you turn on the TV, or you turn on your computer, and there's chaos, absolute chaos. So that's the song is. It starts off with the sounds of the riots and sirens, gunshot. And then it goes into this sort of person, the narrator, who's just desperate. It's almost to go back to a time where all this chaos just wasn't happening, which today those alone, are rare moments. But that's the so we've got that idea of surrender and redemption through the river, take me to the river, drop me in the water baptism. But I mean that's probably my favorite track of that whole album.”
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Curt Smith said, “And also, which is interesting when you get to because sometimes people question a running order of an album and how you get to that point. But that coming where it does after 'My Demons' and going into something. I mean, 'My Demons' is an incredibly intense track. And to have that like breath of kind of serenity afterwards makes it all the more powerful, I think. So, I think that even on its own, it's an incredibly powerful piece of music, lyric and where it is makes it even more so, and I think that comes. It was interesting. When we were putting together the sequence of the album, it kind of fell into place, which tells you that, which told me, anyway, at the time, that we had everything we needed. Initially the song, I thought was a great idea for a song, because it was only really an idea. It was a chorus bit, and the verse wasn't there at all. The recording wasn't quite there and so, but you knew there was something there, and it took a bunch of work to get it to the point where we knew it was something wonderful. But that one, because it took so long, was a bit different to any other train.”
Photo by Lewis Evans - source : Apple Music
