Watch Greg Jamie's music video for "Wanna Live" 15 Oct 2025

"Wanna Live" is the final single from Greg Jamie's excellent new album of hypnagogic pop & gothic folk, Across a Violet Pasture. Our thanks to Post-Trash for premiering the music video which was filmed & directed by Ryan Marshall.

From Post-Trash's Dan Goldin:

“Wanna Live” is the record’s disorienting centerpiece, a track that ripples with an anxious anxiety and a haunting beauty. With drums provided by Mark Fede (Fat History Month), there’s a steady pulse that allows everything else to swirl, the melodies moving in circular patterns as instruments pop and fade in relation to the rhythm. Greg Jamie’s vocals feel like a perfect fit and yet a contrast to it all as he laments the deterioration of a relationship with a shaky but assured, “I want my ego back. I want my baby back”. The video, directed by Ryan Marshall, brings Jamie’s lyrics from his lips to your ears, quite literally, up close and personal with both the artist and the gorgeous simplicity of the nature that seems to inform his sound.

To celebrate the release of Across a Violet Pasture, Greg Jamie is playing live shows around Maine, New York & Wisconsin throughout the fall. More info & tour dates here.