Sudan Archives has shared a video for her new song “Selfish Soul.” She wrote the song with Dexter Story and Ben Dickey. In the Trey Lyons–directed clip, Sudan Archives plays her violin upside down on a pole and standing on a roof and dances in the mud with her girlfriends. Check it out below.
In a statement, Sudan Archives said the song is “about women and the celebration of hair. It’s about representation of different hair textures and embracing all colors and textures of it.” She continued:
I feel like there’s an American standard of what beautiful hair is, and I wanted to show in this video that’s not what all beauty is; to showcase different hairstyles and different types of women and their hair. I was inspired by India.Arie’s “I Am Not My Hair,” one of the first songs I heard about this subject. She talks about extensions and weaves and natural hair and nappy hair, and that she’s not her hair; she won’t conform to the comparisons that would come up if you had a weave or sew-in or natural hair or Afro—that doesn’t represent her.
In March, Sudan Archives shared a video for her first new music in three years—a track called “Home Maker.” Last year, she remixed Future Islands’ “Born in a War.” Her last LP was 2019’s Athena.
Read Pitchfork’s 2017 Rising feature “Sudan Archives: She’s Different.”
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