Ren Harvieu is an emerging Manchester, UK-based singer/songwriter and producer. Harvieu’s work is inspired by a life altering brush with death when she was 20 — and by the Northern English working class penchant for finding humor within despair.
The Manchester-based artist’s single, the Romeo Stodart and Harvieu co-written and co-produced “Black Wig” is a baroque, chamber pop anthem reminiscent of Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Kishi Bashi and Vanille but anchored in an off-kilter yet swooning arrangement of strings, marxophone, harpsichord and musical saw paired with Harvieu’s ethereal Kate Bush-like delivery.
I could picture Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette twerking to this. But as the emerging Manchester-based artist explains, “‘Black Wig’ is an ambitious baroque pop for all the unhinged out there, who are just far too fabulous and tortured for this world.”
Directed by Romeo Stodart, the accompanying video for “Black Wig” visually plays on the Marie Antoinette vibes of the song.
