All the way back in 2014, Parisian-based producer Yndi Ferreira aka DREAM KOALA blew us all away with his Earth.Home.Destroyed EP. The collection of tracks depict a distant future where Earth was deserted and the galaxy was our playground.
Ferreira has said that as a child, he used to dream of fantastical creatures and create ethereal worlds where he loved to lose himself in the magic of his own imagination. His Earth.Home.Destroyed EP is a perfect incantation of his creative childhood and now a brand new music video accompanies one of the EP's most memorable tracks.
'Earth' is more or less the track that is most closely associated with the work of Dream Koala. Using emotional synths and soft vocals, the track has an atmosphere that captures a spacious landscape and feelings delicate emptiness. The track's lyrics describe Earth as a lost place where it's almost uninhabitable and at the end of it's natural existence. Dream Koala sings of a day where space is in our reach and humans can find solace in the stars.
The music video to accompany 'Earth' is exactly what you, and Ferreira, thought it would be. Decrepit landscapes, rusty machinery and galaxies so bright and colourful that they look extremely inviting. With a track that may come across as morbid, the music video for 'Earth' actually shows a more light-hearted side of the story, bringing an enormous amount of exploration into such a short span of time.
'Earth' no doubt won't be the last music video of Dream Koala's that we will become engulfed in. The artist is set to release the follow-up to Earth.Home.Destroyed later this year - and with pretty much no information on the new EP's direction, who knows what Dream Koala has in store for us next.
Words by Lauren Payne
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