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We shot this video for "Genuflect" on Brittas Bay just as the sun was coming up. Until we got in the car to do it we didnât really have much of a plan besides the tall grass and a really funny costume. Once we decided to embrace how prog it was though it all came quite easily. It was shot by our old pal Kenny Leigh.
Cloud Castle Lake - Genuflect (Official Video)Cloud Castle Lake2018-04-11 | Our debut album #Malingerer is out now. Get yours here đ http://smarturl.it/malingerer
Save Genuflect on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2ILKi6k
We shot this video for "Genuflect" on Brittas Bay just as the sun was coming up. Until we got in the car to do it we didnât really have much of a plan besides the tall grass and a really funny costume. Once we decided to embrace how prog it was though it all came quite easily. It was shot by our old pal Kenny Leigh.
Malingerer started out as a recording of Brendan J just messing around on a piano through a cool echo effect. There was a mood to it that was instantly very inspiring. As we fleshed it out into a song we constantly referred back to the early recordings to make sure we maintained that feeling. One of the reasons it has such a bonkers structure is that we wanted each section to flow into the next and progress without losing that initial spark. A big goal of the album was to get closer to our most honest and original sound together. We consider it the one that best articulates that.
I did that textbook thing and went off to a remote cabin to try write. It was in the middle of nowhere in Donegal, no running water or electricity and at the tail end of a January storm so I went a little bit crazy there and the lyrics absorbed a lot of that.
I thought I saw myself again So I followed They were pressing his fingers to their lips They were dropping flowers at his feet I donât know what you were expecting with this
Forget the riddles and the tiptoeing Just for the weight of a blessing
I thought I saw myself again Held to the ground like a madman Strung up with ropes and carried away
Forget the riddles and the tiptoeing Just for the weight of a blessing To be a rarefie
I can see that youâre scared I can see that youâre trying But in your rush to impress Youâve forgotten no oneâs watchingCloud Castle Lake - BonfireCloud Castle Lake2017-12-08 | Get our debut album "Malingerer": http://smarturl.it/malingerer. Out now!
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Bonfire is based around a pretty simple melody I came up with a few years ago. I kept being drawn back to it periodically and steadily adding and expanding it until it grew out into a full song. Writing it felt like a meditative task - what Iâd imagine knitting a scarf is like.
The choir parts were performed by our pals Tonnta, a contemporary choral group from Dublin. The giddiest day of recording for me was probably the first day they came in and sang through their parts. Getting to hear such talented musicians turn all that midi data and notation into music feels like magic.
The lyrics have to do with doubt and denial and keeping secrets. Theyâre very loosely based on an old Irish/Welsh myth about rival tribes trying to find out the secret name of the otherâs god in order to defeat them.
âHold onâ, I said, as you called up on the intercom Iâd been half out the window, fan whirring on my lap âLetâs go for a walkâ, I said, down the buzzing wires I pretended to listen to your stories before we made a stop Staring into the tea leaves, glasses fogged up with mirages Wheezing up from the pavement grates âCan you see them too?â, I asked You pulled and pleaded, insisted we go back but I brushed you off and walked the other way
âJust a little ways furtherâ You skipped behind me, reluctantly in tow what did you slip into my drink.I want to know
âHold onâ, you said, âThe sun is going down and this is a bad neighbourhoodâ Just as you said it a boy went ducking behind a car Eyes pinging yellow in the streetlightsInviting me to follow There was something bundled in his arms so I went after him As he floated around bushes and fences I found him burrowing, hunched over a battered tree Just before he scurried off
and there it was
Roots arcing under cement exhale cracks Deep and housed nuzzled are all your totems and trinkets, secrets and junk
all on the bonfireCloud Castle Lake - Twins (Official Visualizer)Cloud Castle Lake2017-10-06 | Get our debut album "Malingerer": http://smarturl.it/malingerer. Out now!
Listen to Twins on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/TwinsS
I thought I saw myself again So I followed They were pressing his fingers to their lips They were dropping flowers at his feet I donât know what you were expecting with this
Forget the riddles and the tiptoeing Just for the weight of a blessing
I thought I saw myself again Held to the ground like a madman Strung up with ropes and carried away
Forget the riddles and the tiptoeing Just for the weight of a blessing To be a rarefie
I can see that youâre scared I can see that youâre trying But in your rush to impress Youâve forgotten no oneâs watchingCloud Castle Lake - Genuflect (Live)Cloud Castle Lake2015-10-14 | Get our debut album "Malingerer": http://smarturl.it/malingerer. Out now!