Seraphim
Today jazz-hop rapper Akua Naru dropped her second video for
The Miner's Canary with "Seraphim". The song is the fourth track off the artist's third album and it features vocals from singer Fetsum. The song is just as riveting and relaxing as it was when I first listened to it. The combination of the jazz instrumentals, Fetsum's soul centric voice, and Naru's perfectly flowed rhymes makes for a great song for easy listening. As far as the video it lays a visual story of love between Akua and a nameless man or at least that's what I would like for it to be. Actually, the interaction between Akua Naru and the man of interest isn't really conveyed as a story, it's more of them just basically having various interactions without a connection to a plot of any sort or progression. It's not necessarily bad, but it doesn't make it memorable as a music video. On the technical side, the video is well shot, but there are some odd looking lighting in some scenes, in particular around the forty-four second mark. The scenes transition well enough throughout, but overall I feel this was a by the numbers music video. It represented the theme of the song, but didn't do much else to make it stand out. This song and the album this stems are fantastic and as I mentioned in my
Best of Quarter 1 of 2015 thread, it's tied with
Cold Winter as my second favorite album of the year so far, so I'd recommend anyone unfamiliar to check out
The Miner's Canary.
5/10