Watch Jemima Kirke From ‘Girls’ Be Weird In The New Alex Cameron Video
Great song, even better video.
Sydney’s Alex Cameron — the duo made up of the frontman of the same name and saxophonist Roy Molloy — have teamed up with American singer Angel Olsen for their new single ‘Stranger’s Kiss’.
It’s a great track, and it comes accompanied by a clip directed by and starring Girls actor Jemima Kirke — who’s actually IRL mates with Alex.
In it, she plays Alex’s slick-haired, double-denimed doppelgänger, searching the streets and subways of Brooklyn for her other half.
As for the the song itself, Cameron told The Fader it’s about the torturous push and pull of a break up.
“[They’re] taunting each other with sarcastic advice and threats of despair as they grapple with their new found freedom,” he said. “The video Jemima wrote and directed brings the tenderness of love within the song to the surface — two people obsessed with who they want to be. Clinging onto chemical love regardless of destitution. And that is a type of strange love.”
“No matter how unhealthy, superficial or unsustainable that dynamic may be – this love offers brief but blissful moments of relief for whatever pains a person can endure. And that’s what the clip is about.”
Alex Cameron’s new album Forced Witness is out September 8. The bar’s been set high — The Killers’ lead singer Brandon Flowers named the pair’s last LP, Jumping The Shark, the best album of 2016.