Napoleon IIIrd is back with "The Scrape" from new record The Great Lake

The Great Lake will follow Napoleon IIIrd's previous LP Christiana. It was recorded with Nestor Matthews (Menace Beach, Sky Larkin) on drums, John Leaman on guitar, Bob McDougall on bass, and Oli Bentley on saxophone during the spring of 2015 at Leeds' Greenmount studios. Joel Midden (Bastardgeist) contributes backing vocals, Tom Rogerson (Three Trapped Tigers) adds piano, while Neil Walsh (Smoke Fairies) offers viola, Susie Gills the violin, and Jasmine Neale the cello.

The new LP from Napoleon IIIrd - aka James Mabbett - is described as "a five track exploration of the possibilities of song structures within experimental soundscapes thematically wedded to [Mabbett’s] personal experiences of grief."

Seven-minute lead single "The Scrape" is described as "the point where sorrow becomes destructive".

The accompanying video was shot in a derelict automotive silicon hose factory in West Yorkshire just weeks before the factory was demolished to make way for a Lidl. "I think somehow and in some way, this might be kind of fitting," Mabbett adds of the visuals. "The price of love is grief and grief can be so hard we can forget what love is. I am a temporary carbon marker. I am merely conjoined space. Like death, the fight to survive consumes us."