Katrina Ford explores memory, time and the things left unsaid on ‘To The Lighthouse’, the title track from her new album, out October 30. Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s novel, the song considers relationships through the passage of time, with its ever-present lighthouse becoming a beacon amid promises postponed and moments slipping away.
Ford wraps those ideas in dreamy, left-of-centre psychedelic pop. Atmospheric keys and synths surround her commanding, soulful vocal before drums and a deep bass pulse enter the mix. Strange, distinctly 80s electronic textures give the track a restless gothic edge, with shades of Siouxsie and the Banshees running through its more theatrical moments. “Even when looking out the window the brain is a Time Machine,” Ford explains, capturing the song’s hazy movement between memory and the present.
Its surreal video pushes that dream state even further. Dressed in red and wearing an enormous bird mask, Ford’s mysterious figure dances and wanders through an assortment of settings, from mounted fish and mirrors to a marina and shoreline. Night gradually gives way to sunrise before the journey finally reaches its lighthouse — an appropriately strange visual companion to a song that feels suspended somewhere between past and present.
