Fur Trapper Bends Reality With a Wild, Surreal Visualizer for “Never Enough (Modern Human)”

Every once in a while, a music video drops that feels less like a promo piece and more like someone cracked open a brain and let the dreams spill out. That’s exactly what Fur Trapper (the shadowy, synth-soaked alter ego of Lisa Rieffel)... just pulled off with her new visualizer for “Never Enough (Modern Human).”

It’s weird. It’s beautiful. It’s cinematic in that “I definitely need to rewatch this to make sure I caught everything” way. And honestly? It might be her best work yet.

Rieffel wrote and directed the whole thing, building a strange little universe that matches the song’s jittery, emotional pulse. She went big with greenscreen for the first time, and somehow it doesn’t feel like an experiment... it feels intentional, polished, and completely unhinged in the most artistically satisfying way.

The world she’s created floats somewhere between a digital fever dream and a personal confession. Picture a space that’s part neon-lit commercial hellscape, part quiet whisper from your own brain at 3 a.m. The visuals echo the song’s themes... the chase for more, the numbness underneath it, the modern hum of “we’re all a little lost and still pretending we’re fine.”

There’s a hint of Wings of Desire in the DNA of the whole thing (Rieffel has said it’s one of her favorites), and you can feel that influence in the softness underneath all the surreal gloss. It’s haunting, but gentle. Beautiful, but unsettling. Like looking at your reflection in a funhouse mirror that somehow knows your secrets.

“Never Enough (Modern Human)” already hits as one of her most emotionally sharp singles... a sleek, 80s-inspired synth-pop track that balances coolness with an ache you don’t fully notice until the second or third listen. The visualizer doesn’t just accompany the song; it cracks it open and spills its guts across the screen.

And that’s exactly why it works.

This whole aesthetic folds neatly into the world of Fur Trapper’s upcoming debut album SUPER NOW, arriving next February. If the rest of the project leans into this blend of glossy synths, shadowy moods, and off-kilter emotion, we’re in for something special... the kind of record you wander through, not just listen to.

But for now, “Never Enough (Modern Human)” feels like the centerpiece. A weird, shiny, perfectly messed-up love letter to being human right now.

If you haven’t seen the visualizer yet, stop reading this and go hit her Insta page. It looks like a miniature film and feels like a dream

The track is also up on Spotify, Apple Music, and pretty much everywhere else your thumbs wander when you’re avoiding your responsibilities.

1. How does the visual style of the “Never Enough (Modern Human)” visualizer reflect the emotional themes of the song?

   
   

   The visuals mirror  the song’s emotional chaos  by making everything feel slightly off-kilter …  like reality is glitching  while you're trying to hold yourself together. Never Enough (Modern Human) is all about living in a world that constantly tells you to consume, perform, and smile while you're quietly unraveling.  You’re scrolling right now !

   
   

   The visuals lean into that disconnect: the haze, the static, the moments where the camera feels too close or too  far away. It's meant to feel like you're watching yourself from the outside,  drifting through this "shiny happy lucky" world but not quite touching it.   The style captures that emptiness, that pressure, and that subtle sense of being swallowed by your own (modern) life.

   
   

2. Were there any moments during filming where you realized the project was becoming something bigger than you originally imagined?

   
   

   Yeah  there was a moment where I was performing and everything around me just kind of dissolved into this surreal, almost spiritual atmosphere…  and I realized the song wasn't just about personal frustration anymore  /  it was tapping into something bigger, about being alive right now.

   
   

   The  thing I was making suddenly felt like it wasn’t just a visual component of the song . . . it was like  I was telling the same story from like another dimension or something.

   
   

3. In what ways does the visualizer draw inspiration from Wings of Desire, and how is that influence blended into Fur Trapper’s surreal aesthetic?

   
   

   Wings of Desire has this ghostlike theme, an angelic distance . . humans are moving through their lives unaware they're being observed. That was a big inspiration. In the video, there's that same sense of disconnection: like you're hovering just outside your own experience, trying to make sense of all the noise around you.

   
   

   But unlike Wings of Desire, Fur Trapper's universe is more modern, and warped and surreal. It's glitchier. Instead of soft black-and-white cinema, it's this messy, colorful overload of modern life-advertisements, chaos, overstimulation, hunger.  We took that contemplative ‘observer’ energy and dropped it into a world that feels like it's constantly stressing  under the weight of its own need for attention.

   
   

4. How does “Never Enough (Modern Human)” set the tone for Fur Trapper’s upcoming debut album SUPER NOW, and why might it be considered the project’s centerpiece?

   
   

   Never Enough (Modern Human) is sort of  the emotional ‘core’ of SUPER NOW.  The  whole album is about navigating (or failing to navigate) this current existence  where everything is instantaneous and disposable,  and yet somehow nothing ever fills the void. NEMH is the song that lays that foundation right away - it's vulnerable, frustrated, and definitely cynical // but also self-aware and strangely hopeful in its honesty.

   
   

   It's the centerpiece because it's the thesis of the whole project.  It's the moment where the mask drops and you really hear the tension between wanting to belong in this world and ALSO feeling crushed by it.  Everything else on SUPER NOW branches out from this idea: love, culture, identity, desire, all through the lens of a modern human trying to make sense of being alive "right now."