Jessy Lanza deals with near-death by escaping her anxieties into a spectrum of movement even as the body would rather remain still. Throughout the Ontario-born, transcontinental city-dwelling producer’s newest single, “Don’t Leave Me Now”, her luminescent sonic vantage point makes for both an unexpected yet desirable vessel for the thought – inspired by her brush with nearly being hit by a car upon relocating to the unforgiving, fast traffic streets of Los Angeles – as she equally captures the race-speed blur of life through a hypnotic drive pressing itself against an ethereal cool. “I’m walking real slow / And the cars go away,” she sings, as if out of body. It can all end in the blink of an eye, and Jesse Lanza’s “Don’t Leave Me Now” acknowledges that fast, fleeting morbid realization, mind, body and transcendental spirit.

Directed by: Winston H. Case

Jesse Lanza’s “Don’t Leave Me Now” single is available now on Hyperdub.