After teasing on his Instagram page a couple of months back with this image, Joel Tan (aka Gentle Bones) has finally dropped the bomb: it’s a new promotional single off the singer-songwriter's sophomore effort, Geniuses and Thieves.
In ‘Shifting Over’, which premiered on Billboard Asia on Sunday, Tan delivers a melancholic, synth-driven track that mashes bits of R&B over his lush vocals. The song eventually builds up to an irresistible electro-pop bridge in which he laments: ‘I’ve got enough I want nothing to do with you, dear / Seized half my heart now it’s hardly impartial unsure.’
Directed by Jasper Tan of Vadbibes – who also worked on Gentle Bone’s music video for the titular track ‘Geniuses and Thieves’ – the 3-minute-long clip carries the same deep hues and saturated lighting as the former, following the singer as he saunters down dark alleyways and drive by the countryside. But that aside, the 22-year-old's showing off some acting chops of his own in the scenes of his anguished self getting into brawls.
Watch the music video above and tell us what you think.
Gentles Bones is performing at Neon Lights on Nov 26.