New Pagans - New Music

NEW PAGANS / RELEASE NEW SINGLE
‘FIND FAULT WITH ME’ 
FOLLOWS ALBUM ’THE SEED, THE VESSEL,
THE ROOTS AND ALL‘ 

Following an extensive tour across the UK, New Pagans have revealed their brand new single and video ‘Find Fault With Me’. The new track is their first taste of new music since the release of their critically acclaimed album The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots and All earlier this year.

Speaking on the new single, lead vocalist Lyndsey McDougall stated, “It feels like lots of people have had a really hard time over the last few years, dealing with various forms of personal stress and collective aggravation. This song is about checking in with each other and recognising when someone around you needs support. Although the song emerges with a heavy heart, it concludes with a chorus of elevated voices [singing] ‘I’ve got you’ and New Pagans has always been about more than just the music, it’s about building a community who look out for each other and take action when they need to.” The accompanying video takes the core of the song’s inspiration and flips it on its axis, taking the theme of togetherness and placing it in a ritualistic setting. Based on an idea formed by band bassist and director Claire Miskimmin, it sees the performing a cult-like ritual as they discover that focusing on the wrong things can have disastrous consequences. 

Speaking on the music video, Miskimmin commented, “When it comes to making the videos we usually have an improvised, see what happens on the day kind of attitude. However, knowing we were working with Dave / Macker Films put a bit more pressure on me to come up with something solid and not have Dave wandering about the Irish countryside with me while I draped fabric off rocks and trees! Dave is an absolute treat to work with, he just gets it. The video came to me fully formed, as luck would have it, over coffee one morning and I immediately had it story-boarded and sent to the rest of the band with a request to sharpen their acting skills.” “It’s a fairy tale set in our own New Pagans folk horror universe, pitting two cults against each other. The adults represent greed, decadence and violence. They will fight each other to the death for the trove of riches, but are usurped by the children watching from the sidelines. They are not so innocent as they’ve slipped a little poison in our drinks. Kind of like Hansel & Gretel pushing the witch into her own oven. Harsh, but we deserved it.”