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The Maccabees reveal "Something Like Happiness" visuals

19 June 2015, 16:51 | Written by Laurence Day

The Maccabees have revealed the visual accompaniment to new single "Something Like Happiness" from new album Marks To Prove It.

The single follows the album's title track in previewing the band's new record. It's the second part of a video trilogy, and was recorded with "rare infra-red cameras and unique compositional styles".

Director Joe Connor said of the video:

"In our last video we left our character emerging from a puddle, now we see him walking out into a bright light and up into a utopic Elephant and Castle. Throughout this whole collaboration The Maccabees main point was to make the mundane seem amazing, the grotesque beautiful and the forgotten prominent. It's a theme that permeates their whole album and in this video I was desperate to focus on the beauty that can be found in a much derided area.

"These are places where people live, families have grown and nature very much has a part to play in the landscape dominated by concrete and high rises. Myself, Matt Clyde, Adam Scarth and all at MPC busted chops to create these images, each frame with a specifically chosen aspect ratio to give the most beautifully perfect representation of the area. Everything you see in these images is really there, nothing is added, it all exists, we just had to look at it differently."

The track features on the band's upcoming fourth LP, Marks To Prove It, which is released 31 July via Fiction.

Watch the "Something Like Happiness" video below.

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