New York-based singer-songwriter Hannah Cohen wears heartache on her sleeve. Inspired by a recent breakup, her second album Pleasure Boy, continues the raw examination of love lost and ensuing anxieties first heard on her 2012 debut, Child Bride.

“The ice block is the mass of a human, its surface changing throughout the day, solid but vulnerable to its surroundings,” says “Baby” director Matthu Placek, whose intimate examination of the nude form stars contemporary dance star Thibault Lac. “Rolling that 600lbs block of ice outside, thrusting it onto the concrete sidewalk and breaking it into a million pieces was the most satisfying thing I have done this year. Truth.”

Released through Bella Union records, the independent label run by Simon Raymonde of Scot-rock innovators Cocteau Twins, the album is produced by Antony and the Johnsons’ Thomas Bartlett, aka Doveman. “Baby” follows Placek’s previous one-shot filmic portraits of Cohen.

“Nudity on the internet is unavoidable but avoiding nudity (why would anyone want to avoid that?) is achievable on social media,” says Placek. “My feeling is, if you don’t want to see someone’s junk, don’t follow them. I don’t believe it is in the platforms’ best interests to judge what is acceptable and what is not acceptable.”