Feather Trade have shared a new video for “A Ready Defense”, co-directed by Manchester film maker and cinematographer Pete Tomkies and the band’s vocalist and guitarist Chisolm Thompson. The video follows the three members of the band travelling over land from morning until night, struggling over the moors and endeavoring toward some greater goal. Interlaced throughout the video are shots of various people holding various statistics concerning the affects of winter on humanity, for better and for worse. Intermittently are shots of the band in darkness facing these facts in both a literal and a more symbolically internal sense.

Speaking about the video, Chisolm says: “I have an old Victorian postcard of nocturnal animals in the moonlight on a desolate snow-covered hill, holding hands and dancing around a blindfolded rabbit. At the bottom the text reads “By Loving Friends You Are Surrounded, Oh Be Not Blind To This”.

The band acknowledge that the images in the video may be a trigger point to some and a call to action for others and recognise the urgency of this responsibility. As such, on their website they have provided links that, as they say, they hope “Will help in your time of need or in your time of generosity”.

The video for A Ready Defense comes ahead of the release of the debut studio album from Feather Trade, recorded with US producer Matt Yelton (Pixies, Frank Black & The Catholics) and scheduled for released next Spring, with further UK dates to be announced to coincide with the release.

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