NEW VIDEO FOR “UNSOLICITED ADVICE” FROM ANIMATOR JARED SALES
WATCH AND SHARE “UNSOLICITED ADVICE” HERE
BUY / STREAM “UNSOLICITED ADVICE” HERE
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As a contribution to a song-a-day writing club of friends and peers, just around the time the pandemic hit, Charles Spearin (Broken Social Scene, Do Make Say Think) wrote the words and music to “Unsolicited Advice” as a raw, spontaneous, heartfelt letter to his two teenage kids. After recording it, and listening back, he felt it was something larger - a letter to friends and family, a letter to his younger self, a love letter from Generation X to Generation Z; basically a letter to everyone who needs it. The song was not released but passed around among friends.
A year later, Charles shared a handful of songs with video animator Jared Sales who, when he heard it, immediately had a vision. Sales saw it as something even more universal - a kind of algorithm of kindness - and transformed it into an allegorical story of a robot that consumes and feels the overwhelming sadness in the world and then transforms it into messages of encouragement and love.
WATCH AND SHARE “UNSOLICITED ADVICE” HERE
BUY / STREAM “UNSOLICITED ADVICE” HERE
“Unsolicited Advice” Single Artwork // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES
May 3-9 is Mental Health Week and so it seems like a good opportunity to share this collaboration. Both Charles and Jared hope that this small contribution to the bigger conversation about mental health will simply be of some benefit to somebody, somewhere.