Douglas Dare unveils his "most personal song", announces tour with Wild Beasts
Douglas Dare has shared "Oh Father", a new single/video from upcoming sophomore album Aforger.
Dare says of the song: "'Oh Father' is certainly the most personal song I've put out in to the world and the subject is a sensitive one, so I felt any visuals we created had to respect this. I wanted something that wouldn't distract from the song itself; the lyrics are quite purposefully unambiguous and are direct, so we chose to do a single-shot that would intensify the song and not allow the viewer up for air. The audience will read what they will in to the video and, I hope too, the song; for me they are both honest."
The video's directors Jeremy Carne and Nikolas Kasinos add of the visuals: "Through movement we explore a dynamic of control between two bodies, an equilibrium which becomes unbalanced by separation but eventually returns to a state of symbiosis, symbolising an eternally recurring cycle. A metaphor for multifarious relationships structures. There is an unconscious pull towards the unknown, manifested by a mysterious figure which represents both another side of the self and abandon to an other. Opposing forces; a binary of interdependent bits. Although connected conflict exists within the duality, a struggle of attachment and acceptance."
As well as the new album teaser, Dare's dropped the news that he's off on tour supporting Wild Beasts - he'll be playing a bunch of European dates in October, starting at London's Roundhouse.
Aforger is released 14 October via Erased Tapes. It follows 2014's Whelm.
Find out all about Aforger in our recent Q&A with Dare.
Check out "Oh Father" below, and then glance over Dare's dates with Wild Beasts afterwards.
October
- 4 - London (UK) – Roundhouse*
- 11 - Amsterdam (NL) – Paradiso
- 12 - Brussels (BE) – Botanique*
- 13 - Paris (FR) – L'Espace B
- 14 - Lille (FR) – Grand Mix*
- 15 - Strasbourg (FR) – La Laiterie*
- 16 - Cologne (DE) – Luxor*
- 18 - Copenhagen (DK) – Pumpehuset*
- 19 - Berlin (DE) – Berghain Kantine
- 21 - Prague (CZ) – Lucerna M Bar*
- 23 - Zurich (CH) – Rote Fabrik*
- 25 - Milan (IT) – Magnolia*
- 26 - Lyon (FR) – Epcierie Moderne*
* = supporting Wild Beasts
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