New Video: Crows - Slowly Separate

 

                         Crows  (📷 Jamie Noise) 

London Four Piece Crows have returned with a new video for single 'Slowly Separate', their first new music in 3 years. The band's second album 'Beware Believers' is forthcoming.

The new album is the follow up to 2019's critically acclaimed debut 'Silver Tongue' and it looks set to add to the band's reputation for raucous and chaotic Post Punk amongst fans and critics alike. Like many bands who were starting to lift off back then, the momentum they were hoping to capatalise on was halted by the world's continued battle with Covid. 

2020 was set to be a busy year as the Pandemic hit, with the band set to play SXSW with a U.S tour in place, and starting the process of writing 'Beware Believers'. For a band that prides itself and gained it's reputation on it's live performances, it couldn't have been timed any worse. In hindsight however, Crows frontman James Cox found the forced break gave the album a new impetus:

Once we knew Covid was here to stay, we took the first break we've taken since we released our first single 'Pray' in 2015. Being locked down for three months, unable to finish the last bits of the record was very frustrating, but it did mean we could come back to the album with fresh ears and make sure it sounded like it should: a true representation of Crows.

'Slowly Separate' is the first taster of this true representation; a dark and noisy affair with a bass noise reminiscent of Joy Division's 'No Love Lost'  and intense, disorientating swirls of noise that bring to mind contemporaries like Gilla Band, Metz and Protomartyr. The theme of the song is about the relentless grind of City living in the 21st Century, Cox elaborated:

'Slowly Separate' is about living in London, working a job you hate and just going through the mundane routine of hand-to-mouth living. Don't get me wrong, I love London. It's been my home for 13 years, and this song translates to any city and anytime you're working a job that doesn't fulfil you..It gets to you. I'm sure a lot of people can relate.

The creative team behind the video, Sambu - made up of 404 Guild (Dirty Hit) member Taylor Devenny and Ben Hughes - have really encapsulated the intensity and consternation of the music in the visuals of the video. See the video below.

The duo explained more about the video's concept:

Our immediate reaction to the song was that of anxiety and repetition, the feelings of things never getting better, only repeating. Yet there is a certain comfort to be found in this endless cycle. We represent this idea through two anonymous business men dragging manifestations of thier guilt and shame throughout the city, only ever fixated on their own demons and the burdens they carry. They meet at an undisclosed location to release their frustrations before the cycle repeats, time and time again.

'Beware Believers' is set to be released on April 1st on Bad Vibrations Records, and a U.K Tour is in place to support it's release:

Tues April 5th - Bristol, Exchange

Wed April 6th - Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach

Fri April 8th - Manchester, Yes

Sat April 9th - Birmingham, Muther's Recording Studio

Sun April 10th - Leeds, Brudenell Social Club

Mon April 11th - Glasgow, The Garage

Tues April 12th - Sheffield, Sidney & Matilda

Wed April 13th - London, The Scala

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