Feel all your frequencies
I want to crawl into you
Take time with my fantasies
I want to be there with you
Memory is a curious ghost, because what it haunts is not merely the past, but the self we became in another person’s presence. We say we miss them, yet often we mourn the particular music they drew from us: the laughter, courage, tenderness, or strangeness that seemed effortless beside them. But memory, when clung to, begins to melt time itself. Like Dalí’s clocks, the hours lose their shape, and yesterday spills into today until remembrance becomes obsession, even madness. We mistake the echo for a living voice. Yet what we were with them was never theirs alone. It remains within us, waiting to be heard again.
Primitive Heart’s Slingshot begins from a tender idea: the charge of another person who loosens the bolts on your personality and brings some reckless, ecstatic version of you to the surface. Dani Mari sings with a languid directness, her airy voice gliding across atmospheric synthesizers while the spacious arrangement leaves every phrase exposed. There is a dream-pop softness here alongside restrained synth-pop and darker, filmic textures that should feel familiar to listeners of Chromatics, Chrystabell, Still Corners, and Drab Majesty.
Beneath that elegant surface, however, desire has the safety catch off: somebody crashes into your life, scrambles the furniture in your head, and suddenly touch, fantasy, danger, and devotion all share the same address. The song is about the bittersweet yearning for complete proximity, body and mind, surrendering to the kind of attraction that makes ordinary inhibitions seem briefly irrelevant and love begin to resemble a beautiful, temporary insanity.
Beneath the heady romance sits an even darker question: what happens when the beloved one disappears, but the version of yourself they awakened remains lodged in memory?
Director Alice Teeple takes that question into psychological territory. In the clip, Dani Mari moves through the picturesque Catskills and an abandoned former mental institution, while Matthew Deegan, who also styled the video, appears as an androgynous, mischievous presence beyond reach. Their connection is expressed through distance as much as movement. They wander, dance, cross paths, and seem to occupy different realities, as though memory has placed them inside the same room without granting them the same moment.
The slow motion gives Slingshot the quality of a recollection stretched beyond its natural dimensions. A creek, a corridor, a broken window, a wall covered in graffiti: each location begins to feel less like a fixed place than part of a mind trying to preserve an experience after its emotional context has vanished. Dani’s composure gives the images an unnerving calm, while Deegan’s playful movements introduce instability around the edges.
There are traces of David Lynch and Maya Deren in the way identity and space become unreliable, along with touches of The Twilight Zone and Kafka. The chorus, I wanna get crazy with you, becomes a plea directed toward memory itself. She misses another person, but she also seems to miss the freer, stranger self that existed in their company.
“The abandoned asylum immediately came to mind as the right setting, placing her alone in this desolate world, cut off from that energy, yet still possessed of an unnerving sense of peace,” says Teeple. “Matthew was the perfect choice to introduce this kind of playful androgynous chaos, and this presence plays beautifully against Dani’s stoicism.”
Deegan was brought in for their experience as a costume designer working across ballet, opera, theatre, and music. Their approach blends the ornate with the unsettling, drawing from Victorian and Edwardian silhouettes, Japanese fashion, and the codes of queer fetish culture. That sensibility becomes essential to the video’s visual language. Their clothing gives the Puckish figure the appearance of someone who might belong to another century, another fantasy, or another version of Dani’s own consciousness. The styling on both characters never settles neatly into a single period, which makes Deegan feel less like an ordinary companion than a memory being reconstructed according to emotion.
By the closing moments, Slingshot feels suspended between desire and fixation, with Dani moving through spaces where love, recollection, and madness have begun to share the same architecture.
Watch Slingshot, out now via GrindEthos, below:
Primitive Heart’s sophomore album, Colours, was co-produced by Rosana Cabán (Psychic Twin), with remixes by Jorja Chalmers and Chasms. Across the record, Dani Mari places her airy voice against restrained electronics and emotionally precise songwriting.
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