December 17, 2021 – Today, Chrystabell shares “Suicide Moonbeams,” the latest single off her new album Midnight Star that drops January 21 via Love Conquered Records. Touched with a preternatural sweetness, the revelatory new song closes the album with a loving message of reassurance, and the accompanying video (directed by Melanie Abramov) finds Chrystabell on an intergalactic journey through space to a desolate planet Earth.
Watch the “Suicide Moonbeams” video via YouTube HERE.
"After working with Melanie Abramov on a short film last year, she was my first choice to direct and visually capture the ‘love letter to melancholia’ essence of this song,” explains Chrystabell. “Articulating the pensive gossamer of ‘Suicide Moonbeams’ is not a small ask. Like drinking champagne on a hot air balloon ride out of oblivion and into the Aurora Borealis. I guess that's my idea of a love song. When she explained that the video starts with me traveling through space to a desolate Earth in an iridescent merkaba to dance alone wearing a 3-D printed robot dress, let's just say I knew I had the right person for the task!"
Video director Melanie Abramov adds, "The ‘Sucide Moonbeams’ video is a transmission with the intention to open the heart and experience nonlinear time. We take you through a portal on the Merkaba spaceship to Earth, allowing the healing frequencies of Chrystabell's voice, movements, tech clothing, cymatic water art and surreal environments to penetrate the energetic body and support us in surrendering to love."
Midnight Star is a sci-fi fantasia that tells the story of a beneficent being seeking to save humanity from life on a troubled Earth, with a collision of post-disco, synth-pop and space-age psychedelia. Chrystabell’s unearthly storytelling permeates with a worldly insight, offering up tender instructions for living more ecstatically. FLOOD Magazine recently hailed her enchanting new single “Midnight Star,” while BlackBook declared “Breathe Into Euphoria” “gleefully draws on the enduring tenets of ’80s synth-pop, landing ultimately somewhere between Kate Bush and Nina Hagen – yet also sounding somehow spot on for 2021.”
Chrystabell is a hyper-creative polymath, whose past endeavors include four acclaimed albums, sold out performances around the world, a series of musical projects with filmmaker/luminary David Lynch and a central role on Twin Peaks: The Return. Having launched her career in the late-’90s with the neo-swing band 8 1/2 Souvenirs, she first joined forces with Lynch for a song featured in his 2006 film Inland Empire, and later worked with him on her 2011 album This Train and the 2016 EP Somewhere in the Nowhere. Over the past few years, she’s undergone a full-tilt liberation of her creative spirit that finds her embracing a more potent sense of freedom.
“Midnight Star in the most realized form is the highest knowing,” Chrystabell explains. “It’s whoever you are in your imagination when you don’t let limits control you. It’s the purest journey, it’s the superhero in your mind that you would be if there was no one telling you that you couldn’t.”
Midnight Star Tracklist
1. Midnight Star
2. Suicide Moonbeams
3. Breathe Into Euphoria
4. Love Confit
5. 2139
6. Love My Way
7. Pearls
8. Clouds For Breakfast
9. Red Green Blue
10. Silent Scream
11. Golden Sky
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