One of our very favourite emerging guitar bands London’s Desperate Journalist, are about to release their superb new single ‘Hesitate.’ With verses characterised by anxious twitching bass notes and frantic guitar lines, that explode into Jo’s howling epiphanies, the song is taken from the album ‘Desperate Journalist’ out now on Fierce Panda (UK) & Minty Fresh (US). We have the premiere of the brand new video to accompany the release, directed by Jason Weidner it cleverly utilises time lapse techniques, watch it below.
“The inspiration for the video came from my coming across the work of film artist Takashi Ito by random chance,” explains singer Jo Bevan. “I was really struck by how he uses time lapse photography, projection and altered film speeds in a sketching way to make something at once sadly romantic, ghostly and kind of mundane. I sent one of his films (‘Grim’) to Jason and he came up with a treatment inspired by Ito’s aesthetic which perfectly reflects the paralysing anxiety of the lyrics.”
Desperate Journalist set off on a mini tour of the UK this May, dates below.
May ‘mini tour’ dates:
Sunday 24th May – Birmingham, Hare & Hounds
Wednesday 27th May – Sheffield, Rocking Chair
Thursday 28th May – London, 100 Club
Friday 29th May – Norwich, The Blueberry
Saturday 30th May – Bristol, The Stag & Hounds
