Australian electro-industrial group PVT have announced that they’ll be releasing their fifth LP New Spirit on 17th February via Felte. The record continues to see frontman Richard Pike wrestling with his boundaries, and hints at political themes, including issues of intolerance in their home country.
To coincide with the announcement, the band have shared a new video for the single ‘Morning Mist, Rock Island Bend,’ which touches on some of the record’s political themes. Director Mclean Stephenson says of the video: “This video is about the spiritual ruination of a nobody. A beaten person. A man who couldn’t even get a seat at a support group meeting. So he moves to the bush. And he decides to dress like a bush. And eat animal food. And erase himself. And in the depths of his erasure he encounters a new hope. He soon becomes a spirit of the bush. A spirit of the bushland night sky. And he soars through the trees and over the trees. And he is a Phoenix and a guardian of places without postcodes. A new spirit.”
The band added: “The title ‘Morning Mist, Rock Island Bend’ comes from the name of a landscape photo by the Australian photographer Peter Dombrovskis depicting a bend in the Franklin River in Tasmania. The photo was successfully used in a 1983 campaign against the intended destruction of large areas of national forest by the government of the day. Our hope was to examine one of the large elephants that appears to be in Australia’s living room at the moment.” Watch below.
Photo credit: Molean Stephenson
