Blue Vow’s new single “Amorphous Head” reflects a tumultuous journey through identity

The new single from Cape Town-based artist Chelsea Ann Peter, under the guise of Blue Vow, is a reflection of a tumultuous journey through the abyss between identities.

Tilted “Amorphous Head”, the single releases today through The Good Times Co. and heralds the arrival of Blue Vow’s forthcoming album, Death of a Big Black Dog, later this year.

Ahead of the album’s release, Peter reveals the importance of Carl Jung’s shadow work in the creation of her new music. “Throughout the process of shadow work, which propelled the creation of this album, my entire ego-personality faced profound challenges. I found myself questioning the identity I had constructed out of necessity, realising how inadequate it had become. It was a time of dismantling the familiar walls I had erected, surrendering to the process of shedding a skin that no longer served me. 

“‘Amorphous Head’ is a reflection of this tumultuous journey through the abyss between identities. Lost and confused, I grappled with the realisation that the constructs upon which I had built myself were illusions. Yet, amidst this uncertainty, I had not discovered a sense of identity that resonated as true. The song cries from a liminal space.”

Drawing influence that spans from slow-burning ambience to more violent, noise-driven entities, Blue Vow plays with sound to exorcise her dissection of and attempt to comprehend inner and outer worlds. Peter’s sound explores and exorcises her internal and mirrored external worlds, driven by the merging of conscious and subconscious realities. It is an attempt to perceive while being realised as a conduit

While moving through self-reflexive, existential doors, her debut album, Sunfall (2022), and the upcoming Death of a Big Black Dog sink fully into the dark and the light, finding their pulse on the edge where the two forces meet. Dipping in and out of dream landscapes, storytelling, and memory, both bodies of work simultaneously destroy and breathe anew.

Presently morphing into a full band comprising Joy Markus, Damon Miles, Cam Lofstrand, and Stephan Erasmus, Blue Vow is re-imagining itself, slowly shedding skins and transitioning into something new.