Your Beaches from Dream Boat on Vimeo.

I woke up today to one of the biggest surprises in my two and a half years as a music blogger: an (appropriately) late-night missive from Dream Boat’s Sina Sohrab, whose unbearably haunting electronica made we wax pretty poetic last week on Visitation Rites and Altered Zones. Inspired by the nocturnal scenario her music conjured for me, Sina spliced up some footage Jack Cadiff’s The Girl On A Motorcycle and made an equally spine-tingling video to accompany the track. It must be true that an image speaks a thousand words, because this video captures everything I succeeded in saying about this song and everything that will forever remain on the tip of my tongue. It is hard, for example, to describe the fact that even the most harrowing of dream experiences can be mixed with the exhilaration of complete freedom. In fact, the only thing that I can say with certainty here applies to what occurs off-screen: the woman in this video will wake up in the same bed, next to the same man, regardless of where she went and what she did and whomever she danced with in the unremembered blue hours.
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