Coming after recent posts, “Comes In Waves” by Psychologist is quite the contemplative change of pace, musically speaking. But London singer-songwriter Iain Woods, interested in the idea of pop music as sculpture, also has a visually striking switch in store for you.

The lead track on Psychologist’s debut EP, Waves of OK, the music video for the movingly spare “Comes In Waves” frames a role reversal rarely seen in the animal kingdom. Starring Woods’ twin brother, the clip answers the question of what life might be like if men had to saddle up like their seahorse brethren do, and carry a fertilized egg to term. A ridiculously adorable baby is your reward for watching the video straight through to the end.

Am I reading too much into “Comes In Waves” by seeing both the song and music video as connected to Kate Bush’s “This Woman’s Work” and the sequence in She’s Having A Baby that inspired the song? Whatever Psychologist’s artistic inspiration, “Comes In Waves” is an emotionally churning piece of music, wrenching at times, uplifting by tune’s end.

Recorded in one day at St. Matthias Parish Church in Londo, the Waves of OK EP also features a cover of Tim Buckley’s “Song Of The Siren” (or, as I know it, that This Mortal Coil tune). Waves of OK is the first of a two-part release, which together will be known as Epidural. (If someday by some amazing stretch of science, men are able to carry children to term, I bet they’ll be making that drug cocktail a double.)

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