Washington Irving – The Great Unrest (Video Premiere)
Watch the new Washington Irving video for their song The Great Unrest
Washington Irving return this month with August 1914, a ten-part journey through love, death, human connection and grief that lulls you in with upbeat rhythms and tender refrains, layered with loud, crashing emotion and an addictive intensity. August 1914 is the outcome of three years' hard work, backed by Creative Scotland, which saw the Scottish five-piece travel to New York to work with Kevin McMahon – known for his work with Fat White Family, Swans and Real Estate.
Washington Irving have already released two tracks – We Are All Going To Die and Petrograd – from the new album, due for release on 25 March, and The Skinny are thrilled to host the video premiere of the latest single to be taken from August 1914, The Great Unrest.
Lead singer and guitarist Joseph Black describes the album as "a concept record about 20th century war”. In The Great Unrest, Black explains, "the metaphors are stripped back a bit and you get a birdseye view of a domestic crisis which seems apocalyptic to the people involved." The video itself, by Andy Friesen, is a collage of mirrored war footage combined with waves of colour and distortion – watch it in the player above.
August 1914 is released on 25 March. Washington Irving play Stereo, Glasgow on 29 April, to showcase the new album.