Live Review: OOFJ 'I Forgive You' (Official Video)
Los Angeles duo OOFJ release 'I Forgive You, an incredibly dramatic, intense synth pop track with an even stranger film clip to go along with it.
Although synth pop is really prevalent these days, it's never sounded quite as foreboding as Los Angeles male/female duo OOFJ's latest track I Forgive You.
What sounds like the score of a horror film, this track is dramatic, extravagant, and brings electronic music to a music darker place not often heard before.
Tension building and unnerving, I Forgive You really steps up the cinematics for OOFJ. Katherine Mills-Rymer and her high pitched vocals float over a frenetic strings section as anticipation builds.
Starting with a bed of heavy synths, the strings already rise as the vocals softly come in. The bed of synths is broken up to stutters as the strings continue soaring, before an almost rave EDM beat washes over the track. With each layer of Jenno Bjørnkjær's production, more and more anticipation and suspense build as the eerie lyrics play into the sinister racing beats, until it suddenly ends leaving you on the edge of your figurative seat.
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The accompanying film clip is just as intense and peculiar as the track is. Depicting a couple, they go about their day to day life living with one another - apart from their wearing masks when in each other's company. Things take a turn for the strange where they begin to resent each other, leaving Bjørnkjær running off into the hills whilst Mills-Rymer paints herself gold and goes a bit crazy.
This intoxicating track is off OOFJ's forthcoming sophmore album, Acute Feast out in April. Considering the duo, who are actually a couple, met on whilst scoring Lars von Trier's 'Melancholia', it is no wonder this is the type of music they're making!
Words by Emma Jones.
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