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Video Premier : Club Magic / Plenty of Fish (Big Heart)

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The best songs are the ones that manage to be both happy and sad at the same time, that fill you with hope, even if you aren’t in the most hopeful place. Songs like Temptation by New Order, or All My Friends by LCD Soundsystem, both of which I’m sure were inspiration for Plenty of Fish (Big Heart) by Club Magic. Written from the perspective of a chronic oversharer who’s been around the block, it’s hit me much harder than anything else has for a while. The recurring refrain of “Got a big heart” is their way of saying how much they’ve got to give, and I’m glad they’re sharing it with us.

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In the words of the video’s producer Amy Lucas: “This animation is a love letter to the good guys. Club Magic lifted the lyrics from real men’s dating profiles, and for the visuals I borrowed bits from the brilliant dudes in my own life. Reading in the park, watering the office plants, playing Magic: The Gathering, having enormous pints after marathons. Small, silly, sweet habits that keep people grounded. Meanwhile, a duck in knight’s armour watches over our main character from his enormous castle, somewhere out in infinite space. Except he isn’t in space. The duck lives inside our main character’s heart the whole time. It’s a celebration of solid guys who let themselves be vulnerable, and that soft little duck in our hearts that keeps us more or less headed in the right direction… The style is deliberately loose to suit the big, dreamy sound of Club Magic. I designed the character to be changeable so he could be anyone, while setting the story in and around Brighton. (Keep an eye out for the Pier and the i360…;)”

Credits:
Video by Amy Lucas
Mixed by Ed Chivers
Mastered by Ger Kacerja
Written by Club Magic

Video Premier : Grasscut / The Field

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Grasscut’s 2015 album Everyone Was a Bird has been this year’s slow burn grower for us so when were offered the opportunity for a video premier we jumped at the chance. The band have produced videos for each of the tracks from the album and we’re pleased to provide the first showing of the promo for the album’s penultimate track The Field. The video was conceived and directed by Roger Hyams, who’s worked with Grasscut’s Andrew Philips in the past – when Grasscut played at The Basement back in June the show opened with Roger Hyam’s short film Grand Union, which was scored by Andrew.

Andrew described the video is “a beautiful representation of the idea of trying to make the landscape reveal its secrets and depths”. It was partly shot on the South Downs, and has a nod to the slightly unorthodox campaign the band undertook for their previous album. He told us a bit more about the track and the album : “I wrote The Field about people who get up at the crack of dawn in all weathers in the relentless pursuit of ideas. Roger’s vision of this was for me to dig up a film canister he’d buried on the Downs, take it to a darkroom and develop it into a beautiful photograph of a tree – also taken by him. This burial he says was a subtle allusion to Grasscut concealing cassettes around the country for our last album, Unearth. Almost all (apart from two) of those cassettes from Unearth were found. The one at Spurn Head near Hull was found this year, three years after leaving it.”

You can watch the video for The Field below, and you can pick up Everyone Was a Bird on LP or CD from Resident.