WATCH: Pair find therapy in latest music video project

For Mylo Quinn, songwriting is therapy.

That is obvious in the track Cycle, from his latest EP, 'Light'. The song, along with others on the record, detail his struggle through substance use, and recovery.

“It’s embracing the cycle for what it was, the dark, the light, a lot of dualisms going on in there,” he told Kelowna10.

And that dualism is unmistakable in the video released for the song.

“Ultimately embracing the cycle and breaking the cycle,” Quinn added. “It’s acknowledging it for what it was, but also then moving on.”

He and director Beau Fipke lean into dualism in the video. Throughout it, clips of objects having paint poured on them play forward and in reverse to represent aspects of time, grief, partnership, and more.

He said the pair wanted to use minimalism to tell a lot with a little, “to open up the video to feel like there is this big space and weight about it.”

Quinn said completing Light helped him get sober as it was a way for him to work through his experiences. He hopes by others viewing the video, it might help them with their own pain.

“Most of the time when I feel the need to echo an experience and work through it, is when I’ll start writing music which is why most of my music has a somber tone to it,” he said. “This is our gift from our pain that we’ve come from, and we’re putting it into the world, and maybe it’ll help someone else.”

Quinn was not alone in finding closure through the project. Fipke’s father recently passed away from cancer.

“I’ve definitely been struggling with grief the past couple months,” he said. “I think this video for me was, I hate to say it, but therapy. It really helped me come to the table again to be creative.”

Fipke played an instrumental role in turning Quinn’s lyrics into a visual medium. The two of them have been friends for over a decade and have worked on previous projects together.

“He was doing metal back then,” he said. “Now he’s moving into this new project and we’re all super amped about it, the whole team is behind him, and I think it’s going to be a big thing.”

Fipke said the video has plenty of symbolism in it and the crew had fun working with paint to create the practical effects.

“We ended up settling on the paint idea, which is the concept of how things ebb and flow in life, and kind of where they end up and how they travel in time,” he explained. “My thoughts were to reverse [shots] and have them flow in different periods throughout the video so that they collaborate and come together as one giant vision.”

Click here to watch the music video.