Denai Moore - Too Close [Video]

Denai Moore releases the mind-bending visuals for her single ‘Too Close’, an effervescent electronic track tinged with experimentalism from her new album ‘Modern Dread’.

The British-Jamaican artist created the innovative video during lockdown with her partner and director, Nadira Amrani. The visual is a simple yet captivating homage to the famous short documentary film Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames (1977). On a beach in her hometown of Margate, we see a birds-eye view of Moore lying down on the sand. The camera zooms further and further away from her into the sky as the starry-eyed electronic instrumentals ebb and flow until we’re above the UK, then the continent, then the Earth, until we’re way out in space. As the music momentarily drops out, we begin our journey back, all the way down to Moore lying down on the sand. This time we get so close we see cells, then organelles, then DNA and all the other tiny parts that she’s built from as the beat kicks in again. The venture is as immersive and arresting as Moore’s music, which critics have hailed as “a surrealist journey to a fantasy world.”

Moore expands on the meaning behind the song itself: "Too Close is about understanding that your power in yourself isn't defined by other people. Even when you're by yourself you are empowered just as you are. You're enough.”

Watch the visuals for ‘Too Close’ here: