Freya Beer confronts gaslighting on slinky goth pop banger “Love Child”

Channeling a darker, more brooding Kate Bush on her new ear worm “Love Child”, Freya Beer seethes through her lips about “poison ivy rushing through her bones” and snakes hiding in the grass. It’s an elegant goth noir anthem that could easily moonlight as the latest James Bond theme. However, Beer forewarns – to paraphrase the Public Image Ltd.-song – “Love Child” isn’t a love song. The track touches on the toxic act of gaslighting: masquerading lies as truth to exert fear, doubt and guilt onto another.

Freya Beer on “Love Child”: “The lyrics speak from the experience of coming across individuals in life who undermine and try to claim your knowledge and creativity by opposing themselves as the victim in the situation they’ve caused. The subject of the song is something which I haven’t touched upon in my songwriting before but being able to share it on a wider platform and become a story which people can relate to is a way of telling my story.”

Beer – who released her debut LP Beast last year – has worked with director George Miller and independent production company Say Goodnight Films to create the video, which features a lot semi-Biblical imagery acting as innuendo for “Love Child”‘s gripping message.

Watch and listen below, and find the song on streaming platforms.