Ninoosh’s “That Sinking Feeling” is a track about the specific distortion hard seasons produce in a person’s sense of time, the way months can compress or stretch until the calendar stops meaning anything. The Melbourne-based electronic artist builds from nature sounds sampled into the production, a practice that grounds the track’s emotional logic in something slower and less controllable than feeling. The air shifts eventually. That is the whole argument.
The song refuses the idea that healing moves in one direction. The animated video directed by Asher McShane from the Jacky Winter Group makes that refusal visible: clouds circling, a dog entering like a compass, a dream sequence of flight that drops back into Vegemite on toast and a bike ride, and the vertigo of a rollercoaster at Luna Park before Ninoosh sinks into flowers at the close. Not an ending. A soft landing that the ground provides rather than the person arranging. Her husband Daniel and her dog Wilson anchor the domestic world of the clip, small steady presences that the song appears to understand as the things that keep a person here when life gets loud.
Released through Wild At Heart Records, the video has been years in the making for a track Ninoosh produced long before the clip existed. That gap matters. A song written from inside a hard season, carried forward until it became something you can sit inside rather than something you survived. The sinking at the end is into flowers.
