Live Review: WATCH: Rhye 'Open' (Official Video)
The sound of RHYE's latest single 'Open' is as smooth as a baby's bottom, with flute, violins and gleaming vocals.
The sound of RHYE's latest single 'Open' is as smooth as a baby's bottom, with flute, violins and gleaming vocals.
The official video shows the nuanced delicacies of a relationship – a couple isolated at a house on a pebbly grey beach. A couple isolated from each other, in moments of uncertainty and silence. He turns away from her advances, and starts to prepare a bonfire, asserting his masculinity in another way.
She looks longingly at a family portrait of dinnertime through the window of a home that is not her own, before returning to her lover's shoulder and the blazing bonfire he built.
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The only thing that's clear is this dance is defined by the unsaid, the fleeting moments of embrace, and a mutual longing to navigate the distance in between. Here are two lovers begging each other to 'stay open'.
Words by Rebecca McCann
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