The strangely hypnotic video for Niva's new single Dirty Water starts off pretty much like any ordinary morning: you get out of bed, you struggle to get dressed, you have a wash, you have some toast and pour yourself a drink which then turns into a sticky, oily mess, which in turn starts leaking down the walls of your cabin and even out of your telephone receiver. Happens to us all everyday, right?
There's also some kind of twisted message contained within this video – the main character having these odd hallucinations just prior to him dropping a lithium tablet, only for it all to disappear once he does. Either way, it all works brilliantly with the song which is Sweden native Christian Niva's first single since his well-received Feverish Dreams EP. As with most music to seep out of Sweden, Dirty Water kind of effortlessly glides by, all sighing synths, gorgeous tumbling melodies and that juxtaposition between being musically upbeat and lyrically kind of on a downer. Altogether now: "So what have we done? We've done nothing."
• Dirty Water is out now via Something in Construction.
