A dreamy nostalgia is evoked in Clara Mann’s new video for ‘Thread’. An elegy to a lost friend, the song is like grief, it is melancholy and yet hopeful all at the same time. This is the first release on 7476 for the 20-year-old Bristol native. The singer wanders with child-like amazement through simple scenes that evoke decades or even centuries past, her pure bell like voice threading the scenes together.
Speaking about the song, she said: “I wrote this the night I got home after spending three months living with my boyfriend in a one room cabin on Dartmoor. The cabin was at the edge of a farm owned by a wonderful woman called Maggie, who was in her 90s- over the three months, she became incredibly important to me. She had immense spirit, an absolutely wicked sense of humour, and was an incredibly powerful presence on the farm. We’d spend hours with her in the kitchen in the evenings, cooking for her and laughing- I loved her so much. That night, when I got home, I got a call saying Maggie had gone into hospital, and that she might be dying. I didn’t know what to do, all I could do was try and hold onto her in my heart. I suddenly wrote ‘Thread’, and recorded it on my phone. It’s dedicated to her, but it’s about the whole of that autumn, and the grief and magic of that strange time. Maggie survived that night, and lived another year, before leaving us about a month ago. Traces of her light remain, and she touched me and many others deeply- I hope we meet again someday.”
Clara will be on tour in the UK throughout May supporting Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen.
