Tinashe's 'Stormy Weather' Video Is A Sepia Fever Dream Of Movement

"This shit really cracked me open."


That's how Tinashe described her new album Songs For You in a tweet a few weeks before the album officially dropped in late November. You could hear it in how forward-thinking, raw, and nevertheless totally liberating the album's 15 tracks are, finding Tinashe making grand self pronouncements in style.


It's especially evident on "Stormy Weather," the album's wonderfully idiosyncratic fourth tune that makes an entire galaxy out of sneakily intricate percussion and Tinashe's own midnight-purple voice. "Fuck it, gotta go with the feeling," she deadpans midway through, before a creaking guitar solo gives the complete thing an electric glow. In the song's artsy and expertly choreographed new video, which dropped today (December 27), Tinashe doesn't quite glow as much as she fully fills the space around her.


Unlike her lavish "So Much Better" video, which noticed Tinashe in the throes of excess, "Stormy Weather" strips everything down to a sepia skeleton, focusing on the movement and fluidity of the body.


Tinashe herself leads this, rolling and bending and flexing with four other dancers. As much as she's the center of focus, Tinashe moves either in sync with or in jarring contrast to the crew with her — the complete operation often pulses like a school of fish.


Watch the mesmerizing clip — including its clever Wizard of Oz-style reveal near the end — above (and check it out on MTV Live and mtvU).