Dinner - “Say What You Want” (Official Video)

Danish producer and singer Anders Rhedin, who records under the name Dinner, doesn’t have a full-length album to his name yet. But since 2012, Rhedin has released one EP of synth-heavy, raunchy glam-pop per year, and in April, Captured Tracks will put out a collection of these recordings, fittingly titled Three EPs, 2012-2014. Our first peak at that compilation comes today via the video for “Say What You Want,” an elegiac slow-burner featuring Rhedin’s hypnotic, vowel-rich vocal delivery and somber keyboard chords. The song is heavy enough, but director Lily X. Wahrman’s video brings us claustrophobically close to Rhedin as he intones “love is death” — a move that adds a few tons of emotional weight to the experience. Rhedin’s thoughts on the video are a bit lighter: “Lily X. and I started the day of the video shoot by meditating on impermanence. Then we [spent] the next 3 hours or so on trying on lipstick to find the exact right shade. We listened to Klaus Nomi and Madonna and drank vodka. Then I improvised a little in front of the camera, and the video was done.” Sounds about right.