Fazerdaze Debuts Video For “Winter”

Fazerdaze AKA: Amelia Murray has released a new video for "Winter"

Fazerdaze AKA: Amelia Murray has released a new video for “Winter,’ the latest single off her recent EP Break!, now available via section1. Break! was completed during a three-month long lockdown in NZ while Amelia was living in solitude for the first time, and directly in the aftermath of a nine year long relationship. In other news, Fazerdaze will be supporting Lorde on her 2023 tour.

Speaking about the meaning behind the song and making the video, the New Zealand singer/producer/multi-instrumentalist, explains, “Winter is a song about hope and disappointment. It’s about striving to see the best in someone, and choosing to believe someone’s words over their actions. This song makes me think of what Maya Angelou said; “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time”. This is something I have had to learn the hard way repeatedly, and these lyrics show me going through that lesson.

My vision for this video was to have a girl in a bright coloured rain jacket on a grey winter’s day. I wanted the brightness of her jacket to symbolise the hope she is holding onto within a grey, murky situation. When I told Joey (the director) this vision, we were out the door in ten minutes to shoot this. We did zero planning, which worked well for me as I wasn’t able to overthink the performance.”

Alongside ‘Winter’, the EP features the 90’s indebted single ‘Come Apart’, title track ‘Break!’, ‘Overthink It’ – a grunge-inflected mantra for those prone to a bout of the brain worms, and ‘Thick of the Honey’, which traverses psych territory.

In Amelia’s words, “Because I was so private about the pain I was experiencing I called the EP ‘Break!’ to reflect the way that I got myself out of the pain; by breaking, shouting for help, drawing a line and telling people around me that I’d had enough. It was an ugly but transformative time, and I made massive shifts forward in my life when I finally allowed myself to come undone. In this space of brokenness, I found power, freedom, a blank canvas. Break! is ultimately about surrender and acceptance of ugly truths.”

Fazerdaze
Break!
Tracklist

1. Break!
2. Winter
3. Thick of the Honey
4. Come Apart
5. Overthink It
6. Flood Into (vinyl only)

Fazerdaze 2023 Tour Dates

Feb 21 – Days Bay, Wellington
Feb 22 – Days Bay, Wellington
Feb 27 – Neuedorf, Upper Moutere
Mar 1 – Black Barn, Havelock North
Mar 2 – Black Barn, Havelock North
Mar 4 – OuterFields, Auckland