Native Harrow have shared a video for “As It Goes”, the second track to be lifted from their new album Old Kind Of Magic which arrives October 28 via Loose Music, (pre-save/pre-order the album here).
Old Kind of Magic is the fifth long-player from Native Harrow – Stephen Harms and Devin Tuel – and arrives two years after they left Pennsylvania for a new life in Sussex, a journey referenced in “As It Goes”.
I arrived in a new land and I said, “I’m gonna be a brand new version of me”
Take it off, change it all, I wanna see really me
“It is true,” explains Devin. “I arrived in a new land to make a new life and to trust my instincts and after chasing the dream realise I had it in my hands, and what now will I do with it?”
Sonically, “As It Goes” channels 60s technicolour psychedelia: a grainy plastic-soul farfisa organ and a fluorescent charged rock’n’roll electric guitar duel over a concentrated rhythm section against a backdrop of an arcing, cresting soundstage string orchestra. It’s a soundtrack for snaking around Sunset around midnight, neon lights ricocheting through the dark corners of the canyon.
The video for “As It Goes” was partially inspired by Joe Massot’s 1968 British psychedelic film ‘Wonderwall’. “Imagine yourself peeking through a crack in the wall of your flat and gazing upon an alternate time and space; brighter, more colourful, more exciting. Is it a daydream or is it a delusion?” comments Stephen. “It’s Wonderwall meets Fillmore West liquid light show meets Native Harrow.”
Their new album is described as their most sweepingly expansive and delicately intimate album to date.