Track appears on Savages’ frontwoman’s first solo LP, To Love Is to Live
, with a surrealistic video for the dusky track, “We Will Sin Together,” which contains the album’s titular line: “To love is to live/to live is to sin.”
To illustrate this, the clip presents a religious-looking marble statue that, once unveiled, comes to life and engages in a litany of sexual and violent vignettes. These reference mythology from Catholic, Roman and Greek literature — the Virgin Mary, Cupid and Psyche, Pluto and Proserpina, Michael and Lucifer, and Satyr and Hermaphroditus — as the track’s sparse, dramatic electronic backdrop supports Beth’s lyrics about kisses, murder and damnation.
cover art. The studio took a 3-D capture of Beth for the cover and she posed again in March for the clip. “The embodiment of different voices and this whole notion of embracing the masculine and feminine characteristics of identity was the main starting point for us,” Hingston said of the clip in a statement. “The record has an attitude and a driving intent — there is a rawness from her lyrics and the production, which doesn’t sound like anything you’ve heard before.
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