Kish Mauve – Matthew
You watch enough YouTube videos and you stop noticing how compressed everything sounds until something comes along shot and mastered properly—no black bars, clean audio, the whole thing treated like it’s actually worth your time. This one reminded me why Vimeo exists, and why most artists don’t bother uploading to it.
Kish Mauve is an electropop duo from London. They put out an album called Black Heart
at the end of March, and Matthew
is the single. I don’t know them well enough to say if this is typical for them, but the production here is meticulous. Everything is clear—the framing, the color, the way the song sits in the mix. Most music videos look like afterthoughts next to something like this.
That precision does something. It makes you actually listen. The song has to be good for it to work, and I think this one is. Still figuring out what Kish Mauve actually means to me, but there’s something here worth coming back to.