[Cover photo credit to Bells Larsen]

Devarrow, the creative persona of Canadian Folk artist Graham Ereaux, hails from rural coastal Canada as a songwriter and music producer. It’s been five-years since his last release, but Devarrow has been immersed in songwriting and music making since then.

Devarrow has returned with new single and video for “Kickin‘,” a nod to “easy days hanging with friends, or doing nothing in particular.”

The accompanying video is shot with a Wes Andersen-esque attention to symmetry, surroundings, and colour usage, and features Devarrow in “a playful ode to aging.” 

He comments:

I don’t feel at all attached to the idea of making music videos. And I don’t personally watch them myself. I was joking with Riley Lamarche [the director] about how I felt music videos are getting old, and then it occurred to us, perhaps we should just make a video of me getting old instead.

Devarrow “aims to dismantle the notion that art must emerge from a tortured and introspective place dictated by emotions.” Instead, he advocates for “making art quickly and for the sheer joy of it, without compromising artistic integrity.”

The light-hearted track “Kickin‘” is accompanied by a b-side, “In Time”, which “sets the tone” for more to come from Devarrow.