Montreal based singer-songwriter Una Rose introduces us to her father Gene: lifelong leftist, grumpy intellectual, furious optimist.
At the end of 2019, Gene visited his daughter in Montreal just before New Year’s. Una and her dad did what they usually do, talk politics, watch movies, and drink beer. Dad stuff.
Una then began writing ‘Resolutions’ after he left, thinking through their complicated relationship and what Una gets from their conversations.
She finished the song in March 2020, as the world was shutting down and it was becoming clear she wouldn’t see her father for a long time.
‘Resolutions’ mesmerizes thanks to dreamy vocals from Una Rose which flow perfectly alongside the catchy synth melodies.
The song is about Gene’s ability to believe that something else is around the corner. Except for when he doesn’t, and then it’s Una’s job to talk him back into it. A relationship built around phone calls back and forth, questioning the way things are and could be.
Rebecca Gekht created the visualizer for ‘Resolutions’, whose abstract images gesture towards cyclicality, vitality, and change as a constant.
They remind Una of the flow of conversation, the way a dynamic ebbs and flows, ramping up and dying down before the sun sets.
How do you believe in whatever’s on the other hand? is the song’s central refrain. It’s a reference to one of Gene’s go-to phrases— but on the other hand and Una Rose’s own attempts to find something worth holding on to.
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