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Chilli Jesson drops video for ‘Thick Skin’
The Palma Violets frontman will also release his upcoming EP in May
Chilli Jesson has shared the music video for his new single, ‘Thick Skin’.
Following on from November’s track ‘Carolina Reaper’, ‘Thick Skin’ is the latest track to be taken from Jesson’s upcoming EP, ‘Carolina Reaper’, which is due this Spring.
The former Palma Violets frontman said the video was inspired by his time feeling isolated at school due to both personality and bereavement reasons. “In retrospect I had found liberation in not fitting with the norm and having a completely different outlook to my friends, who would end up pursuing normal career paths and fitting into boxes that I felt I could not conform to,” he explained. “All the angst and hardening had given me the belief that I could go out and forge a path of my own”
Check out the video below:
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