London-based singer-songwriter Eve Owen has released a new music video today for her single ‘Mother‘, which is one track of her forthcoming debut album Let the Ink Dry, set for release this Friday (May 8th). Speaking to NME, Owen describes the importance of featuring ‘Mother‘ in its own music video: “The idea was to document all the artwork from my childhood and life that in some way or another lead to making this album. I wanted to show that everything connects to everything in terms of art.”

Owen’s approach to music has always been led by her feelings rather than by any exact musical structure. Likening her process as following a stream of consciousness, she says, “I usually start out playing whatever I feel, even if it sounds horrible, like just bashing the piano keys.” The pure feeling of this exercise is key to her musical method, “writ[ing] down everything that comes to me in the moment, and I don’t really edit much afterward.”

This attitude suits the personal, dynamic quality of the music video, which features multiple quick edits and closeups of Owen as she doodles in notebooks, writes, cuts, sticks, and reassembles materials into a tapestry of words and images. The music video is very much a representation, and a product of, her own artistic output: scattershot, disparate, beautiful.

Like many artists, Owen was preparing to start the new decade with a bang, with live shows scheduled to promote the release of this new album. Those plans, “have changed,” she says, but recognises the need for music in time a crisis such as the present COVID-19 pandemic: “now seems like a really important time for art and its healing powers.”

She believes her own knowingly cathartic music can be of some help to others, saying she was “in a quiet, dark place writing these songs and they helped me – so hopefully they will continue to do this for others during these quiet dark times.”