- Music
- 20 May 21
Elgin's forthcoming album 'Weightless / Still' lands on May 28 via Pixie Pace Records.
Dublin duo Elgin have shared the brand new video for their latest single 'Stone's Throw', taken from their forthcoming album Weightless / Still.
‘Stone’s Throw’ is an emotive song of personal reflection on the more solemn points in life, yet the message is uplifted with anthemic musicality in a huge soaring chorus of beautiful vocal harmonies awash with glorious keys. The accompanying video accentuates the track's depth, featuring a stunning choreographed dance from Aiobhinn O'Dea portraying the search for stability.
"The song is a self-evaluation at a low point," Elgin's Paul Butler says of the track's origins.
"Very much a different version of myself, someone I most probably couldn't relate to anymore. But a version that needed to happen."
Speaking about the video, Anthony Furey adds, “The performance tells the story of many struggling between their true nature and who society believes they should be. Aoibhinn with her choreography and performances brings to life this conflict. She’s constantly pulled between feelings and fighting to find balance just to find herself once again returning to her safe place.”
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The Dublin duo came together having travelled the world as acclaimed collective The Young Folk.
Weightless / Still is set to be a stunning atmospheric indie-folk record, incorporating a wide range of instrumentation with lush guitars, synths, keys, brass and more - enveloped in decadent vocal harmonies with a vast, expansive sound.
The tracks on the new album tackle themes of defeats, epiphanies, minor victories, smaller blessings and daily awkwardness, such as the idea of imposter syndrome in the lead single ‘Cherry Picked’.
The album captures so many feelings and states of mind, all aspiring ultimately perhaps to a feeling we often dream about, the feeling of being weightless and still.
“As in out-of-body,” says Paul. “The feeling that we never have.”
Check out the mesmerising video for 'Stone's Throw' below: