To celebrate the release of the new issue of Hot Press, we're bringing you behind-the-scenes of our cover shoot with acclaimed Irish trio Wyvern Lingo!

For their Hot Press cover, the Bray band hit the pool for a very special photo shoot with our photographer, Miguel Ruiz – who produced some beautiful, dramatic images of Caoimhe Barry, Saoirse Duane and Karen Cowley.

Take a look at our behind-the-scenes video, shot by Danni Ronan, below:

Inside the new issue, the Bray band tell us how hitting their late twenties and upping sticks to Berlin shaped their highly anticipated new album, Awake You Lie – out February 26. Written by Lucy O'Toole, it is a gripping interview with three supremely talented musicians, who have continued to raise the bar for Irish artists.

“It’s about that anxiety, of worrying about where you are in your life, and worrying whether you’ve made the right decisions,” Wyvern Lingo's Caoimhe Barry says of the new album in the interview. “And being in the dark about how you feel. Awake You Lie is a lyric from ‘Aurora’, one of the songs on the album, and it sums up that feeling of lying there at night with your thoughts, and the way they fester...”

Can this record – hailed by Pat Carty in this issue of Hot Press as nothing less than brilliant – be the one that catapults the group to international prominence? The story starts here...

The new issue also features flip-cover stars Kings of Leon, as well as the official debut of our new Hot Press logo.

Pick up your copy of the new issue of Hot Press in shops now, or order online below: