
Photo by Tonje Thilesen
Wouldn’t it be nice to move through this life with nothing but wonder and adventure rather than letting all of the human-made distractions — capitalism, war, violence, and prejudice come to mind — sidetrack us from aspiring to those much more fulfilling experiences? Allegra Krieger is thinking about it a lot on “Never Arriving”, the lead single from the New York singer-songwriter’s forthcoming fifth studio album, Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine, in which she threads intimacy, biology, the cosmos, and a slow wandering death into one beginning and endpoint, pondering what that freedom would feel like. “Never arriving / No common goal / Just connecting flesh in the night / Eliminate edges.” Less fragile than her last sonic plane of exploration, the listen ventures into discovering that exhilaration through dusky rock vibes that roll through the space-time continuum until it meets its natural end. A life without pressure, and a true choose-your-own-adventure…
Directed by: Joe Ahern
Allegra Krieger’s Art of the Unseen Infinity Machine will be released September 13th on Double Double Whammy.
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