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PREMIERE: Watch Mideau's Moving Picture Book-Styled Video for "Maude"

Fire, in all its beauty and devastation, inspired this song by boy-girl duo Mideau.

Fire can make you feel an a lot of feelings—scared, hot, calm—but it can simultaneously be something tragic and beautiful. For Mideau, fire was the latter, which the indie-pop duo sweetly conveys in their cinematic and symphonic track “Maude.” The dreamy lyrics, inspired by a fire witnessed by vocalist Libbie Linton, came from her memory of watching a house in her neighborhood burn down. “In that moment, [the fire] was beautiful and exciting—but as with many things, perspective can shift over time and things are processed differently," recalls Linton. For her and bandmate Spencer J Harrison, it was the memory of the fire that shifted and the perspective that changed over time, which evolved into this song.

The video for “Maude” is essentially a moving picture book in which Mideau captures the inspiration for the aesthetic of their album, which came from one location: a beautiful wood-paneled mid-century modern home with era-ambiguous furniture and framed paintings. “The ‘Maude’ video highlights this location—a place where we rehearsed, lounged, wrote and daydreamed during the recording of the album,” says Linton. “The video concept itself—with frames stitched together to create a rolling, continuous pan—serves as a visual reinforcement of the song themes, with an ever-changing and fluid shift of perspective.”

“Maude” will appear on the band’s self-titled debut due 4.21.