Premiere: Ethereal UK suffers from a ‘Restless Mind’
The UK singer-songwriter captures the true darkness of anxiety in her new video.
Bound by iron-clad shackles, sufferers of depression and anxiety live a much more sorrowful life than most. The torment bangs off the rib cage, tremors rattling throughout the rest of the body. Statistically speaking, 40 million Americans are faced with the cloying blackness in their lives, devouring their flesh from their bones, one pound at a time. The troubling and barbaric state of the world doesn’t help, but we can do our part by talking about it and shedding light on the truth. British singer-songwriter Ethereal UK (real name Waritsara ‘Yui’ Karlberg) engages in this evergreen conversation with her new single, “Restless Mind,” her first release on XYYX Records, founded by Lenny Zenith and James Pertusi ⎯⎯ the track is a rather ambient and wounded performance, brimming with her goosebump-inducing head voice.
“Looking out across the ocean / Looking into my soul / She can still hear the sounds of civilisation / Running through my soul,” Karlberg purrs through consoling and smooth-as-glass waves of guitar and blinking piano clicks. She is unwavering in her honesty, dismantling the anxiety, brick by brick, as a way to understand the riots ripping through her body. She quakes, but even when all the ash falls at her feet, she kicks it up again and marches into the great yonder, a world only she can see or know. “Feel the wind against my long brown hair / Feel the wind / Where she wants go it’ll take her there,” she later babbles, like a crystal-water brook gurgling through the mountain’s fingertips.
The accompanying visual, premiering today, occupies the peculiar and altogether strange headspace of one with crippling depression. On the song, she tells B-Sides & Badlands, “Anxiety carries both positive and negative attributes. At whatever extent we have it, it can either protect or save us from uncomfortable or even endangering experiences that have not happened yet but on the other hand, interfere with our daily lives, perhaps by over-analyzing past experiences. And because of those experiences, we may struggle to live in the present or a present situation such as when we want to enjoy natural surroundings.”
“Restless Mind” fasteners together the major hooks of Karlberg’s forthcoming self-titled record, out Sept. 15. Through her own story as a transgender woman, she opens up unapologetically about depression, Aspergers Syndrome and other timely topics.
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