Jordan Klassen shares music video for “Overstep” From His Album, Marginalia
Jordan Klassen shares a new installment from his latest album, Marginalia, with the music video for “Overstep.” Cinematic, quirky, and even a little unnerving, the video perfectly depicts the uneasy feelings that can come from isolation, and that sometimes the best way through is to overstep.
“Overstep is my post-COVID anthem,” reflects Klassen. “Over the pandemic I found myself becoming acclimatized to patterns of isolation and lethargy. As the world has come down from crisis I realized that to become engaged again I would have to break out of my newfound comfort zones and take risks again. Overstep is making a bit of a declaration – it’s time to embrace discomfort and overstep my bounds.”
Of the video, he adds,
“The Overstep video was made by my friend Matt Kingcroft, and he really zeroed in on what it feels like to be carrying around the annoying imaginary friend of fear and anxiety that accompanies any sort of attempt at vulnerability. And how making friends with that fear instead of avoiding it is the only path forward.”
The sister record to last year’s Glossolalia, Marginalia sees Klassen step into a more melodic and less stripped-down style than what Klassen has produced before. Led by warm piano arrangements and sweeping strings, the album highlights Klassen’s impressive ability to evoke an incredibly deep poetic auditory experience. When he set out to write Glossolalia, Klassen tapped into a new creative well. In the midst of recording the album, he found himself continuing to write, coming away from the process with two distinct yet complementary bodies of work. Marginalia now rounds out the collection from this period. Composing Glossolalia mostly with guitar, Klassen created a subtly blossoming record that perhaps nailed his “fairy folk for troubled times” approach better than ever before. The arrangements on Glossolalia were reduced to the bare essentials to support his voice with minimal production. While troubles are not a thing of the past, times are now different, and thus, Marginalia is the other side of the musical coin: smoother, fuller, and more elegant than its predecessor.
With this new body of work, Klassen’s ultimate message is that what feels intangible can be revealed by peering into the marginalia. The sacred is manifested all around us, “in touch and taste and smell,” there for us to discover if we look for it.