Ascendant Belfast band NEW PAGANS have just unveiled a video from their forthcoming debut album.
'Habour' is the third single to be taken from The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots and All, following on from the recent 'Christian Boys' and 'Yellow Room', released last summer.
"The video was shot on a freak dry day, in between weeks of snow and lashing rain, at St. Cooey's Well,” says bassist and video director Clare Miskimmin. “Lyndsey [McDougall, vocals] had been a few times and kept it in mind as a stunning and pretty sinister location. It dates back to the 7th Century and the 70s altar actually houses the foundation stones of the old monastery. That lent itself to the basic premise of summoning a world and its inhabitants beyond ours, hidden from our view. Merging two realities.
“I love how the very last line is 'it's just you and me', and how Lyndsey and her summoned doppelganger are swallowed up by the altar,” Clare continues. “Stuart Sloan, our editor, and I are massive David Lynch fans and nobody does the world beyond the veil like Lynch so we just ran with that vibe. Our very own entrance to the Black Lodge in the wilds of County Down."
With the album set for release through Big Scary Monsters on 19 March, the band have lined up a special livestream event for the same day as a lockdown launch gig. The show will take place in Derry, where they played their first ever show, at the city's musical hub, the Nerve Centre. Free to view, the gig is a ticketed event - sign up here.
The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots and All is available to pre-order here.
Pic by Aaron Cunningham