Premiere: BONZIE Shares New Video for “lavalamp”
New LP Once I Discovered The Lure Door is Out Now
Jul 03, 2025
Chicago indie pop singer/songwriter BONZIE shared her fourth full-length album, Once I Discovered The Lure Door, final 12 months. That album discovered BONZIE crafting her first self-produced providing, one which weaved collectively numerous artwork pop, jazz, and people influences into compositions with an elemental, slow-burning attract. The album’s minimalist development held loads of weak lyrical turns and dreamy preparations, together with on “lavalamp,” one among BONZIE’s lilting people gems. As we speak, she is sharing an accompanying video for “lavalamp,” premiering with Underneath the Radar.
With “lavalamp,” BONZIE leans right into a heat, conversational supply, letting her vocals drift gently atop swelling keys and soft-hued acoustic tones. The ensuing observe is slight and intimate, however BONZIE makes use of that minimalism to her benefit, highlighting the nice and cozy manufacturing and homespun melodicism whereas by no means underplaying the innate catchiness of her songwriting. She steeps her vocals in wistful sighs and winding melodies, letting the tune construct earlier than pulling again at its apex, all as her lyrics discover lingering uncertainties and questions of which means: “I performed round with items of all these shattered scenes / If I may contact the issues that I used to be not in a position to see / Nicely, possibly there’s a sample / A commonality / Of all these planes, properly, I don’t know the place I’d fairly be / Why is it so exhausting to search out / Discover something inside?”
The accompanying video matches the observe’s sun-dappled vitality, following BONZIE on a winding tour of Tokyo, superbly shot on movie by photographer Motohiko Hasui. BONZIE says, “Motohiko and I needed to maintain a pure, actual Tokyo really feel— we didn’t artificially colour the footage. That is what Motohiko describes as ‘Japanese colour vs. American colour’, akin to the visible aesthetic of 80’s and 90’s Japanese movies.
I’ve been learning Japanese for 15 years, so it was fantastic to have the ability to present my love and respect for the town.
The person on the finish of the video was a store proprietor in a small neighborhood we occurred to discover. He advised me he’s been working his fruit and vegetable store for over 40 years. The title of the store was ‘Ohashi Shoten’… actually ‘Ohashi’s Store’, his title. There was a restaurant subsequent door known as ‘Restaurant Subsequent To Ohashi Shoten’. I feel he’s considerably of a neighborhood superstar.”
Try the tune and video beneath. Once I Discovered The Lure Door is out in all places now.
