“A Message” is the opening track to Kelela’s Hallucinogen EP in which she contemplates a relationship that has recently ended. Kelela told The FADER that the song was written in the same studio session as the EP’s title track.

Kelela actually wrote the song with Arca and Canadian songwriter Mocky before her debut mixtape Cut 4 Me (released in October 2013) was finished, but decided to hold its release because she “wanted to go all the way” with it.

The animated music video, directed by Daniel Sannwald, premiered on March 5th, 2015 via i-D.