Laura Veirs has shared “Pulse”, the latest single from her self-made fourteenth album “Temple Songs”, out 14th August. It builds from nylon-string guitar and bare vocals into bold electric guitar and ‘Filthy’ Lucre’s saxophone, ending on a dissonant duet. The Twixx Williams-directed video sets it in a home gym, with cake, silly string and a nod to Veirs’s weightlifting.
SML have shared a live video of “The Drums”, the A-side of their new album “Spontaneous Music Live” on International Anthem. Filmed by Charlie Weinmann at Zebulon in LA, it captures one of two side-length improvisations recorded uncut to analogue tape — the band working through an idea in real time, with nowhere to hide.
Emily Portman shares a live video of “Fox’s Song”, a track from her album “Dominion of Spells”, filmed at Moonko in Sheffield. Inspired by a Siberian folk tale, it casts its narrator as a shape-shifting woman-fox, exploring feminism, midlife change and the pull towards a wilder form of life. Portman (voice, banjo) is joined by Louis Campbell and Lucy Revis.
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