Irish alt-folk duo Saint Sister bewitch with "Tin Man" and its accompanying visuals

It's hard to imagine failing to connect with Saint Sister's beautifully wistful music. Inspired by "early Celtic harp traditions, '60s folk and electronic pop", much of Morgan MacIntyre and Gemma Doherty's material is a fine and emotive threading of those strands, bolstered by intelligent lyricism.

With the release of Madrid EP last year the Irish pair, who met two years ago while studying at Trinity College in Dublin, have spent the majority of 2016 playing shows.

In November the duo shared "Tin Man" (watch the brand new video below) and Friday sees the release of "Tin Man / Corpses" 7" vinyl.

MacIntyre reveals that "Tin Man's" main theme is inspired by the opening line of John Dunne's poem The Sun Rising, in which he curses the "unruly sun" for attempting to disrupt him and his lover in bed.

"John Dunne is one of my favourite poets," MacIntyre says. "I have an old book of his poems that belonged to my mum when she was at university. It has all her notes for each poem, including this one, marked down the margin."

The treasuring of a well-thumbed tome holds the kind of intimacy the song itself projects. Harp notes trickle to a tick-tock rim-tap beat as breathy protests of "unruly sun/what have you done?" duly lament any rhythmic suggestion for the passage of time. Presumptuously­­­­ the Tin Man referenced in the song - "[who] will not desert me" - is one such entwined lover.

The accompanying visuals touch upon the aforementioned themes, here taking characters from The Wizard of Oz and throwing them into a blind date TV show where Dorothy must pick between the Lion, the Scarecrow, or the Tin Man.

The Tin Man, as the original story goes, desires a heart. You guess who she picks.