With ‘Siren,’ we wanted to push our music toward a more visceral territory. It is the decadent heart of the new record—a track where experimentation doesn’t happen through complexity, but through subtraction and a search for sounds that feel almost ‘worn away’ by time.
We wanted the music to sound like that ‘sigh’ that turns memories into dust, merging the carnality of rock with more rarefied and dark atmospheres, almost to emphasize the paradox of a moment where trying to be happy feels like a transgression (‘If I’m happy and I know it, it’s a sin’).
The video accompanying the single, directed by Riccardo Camin, is a theatrical representation of the Odyssey, filmed entirely in raw black and white and staged by a single actor. This choice reflects the very essence of the track:
Isolation: Just as the video’s protagonist is alone on stage performing an entire myth, in the song we feel alone before the ‘scroll’ of our own memory.
Fiction: The theatrical staging echoes the central doubt of the lyrics: ‘Did we just fall for a trick, did we pretend?’ Are we truly ourselves, or are we just performing our lives?
The ‘Sirens’ no longer live in the ocean; they are the background noise of our modern anxieties that follow us right into bed. The video transforms Ulysses’ journey into the journey of a man desperately trying to find his way back (‘How did we find our way home?’) in a world that has lost its colors, clinging to a single certainty: not giving up, in spite of everything.