Clementine Valentine, has shared “The Rope,” the track, is the latest single from their forthcoming album, The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor , available August 25th, via Flying Nun Records imprint. Clementine and Valentine draw on the essence of their familial musical heritage – the sisters, great-granddaughters of Traveller musician Davie Stewart (recorded by Alan Lomax), come from a long line of folk musicians and storytellers passed down over centuries.

The duo are formally known as Purple Pilgrims. “Of the song the sisters say: “The rope acts as a motif to connect us to our ancestors – we wanted it to feel as though it could be both ancient and of now. A feeling we call ‘ancient futurism’ – something we’ve been chasing in our songs for years now. We were reaching for a feeling simultaneously sinister and comforting as, to us, so many ancient songs are.

We’ve always listened to a lot of new music, but the core of our creative expression has always come directly from our deep familial folk music traditions. This is something that has not always been easily identifiable, perhaps due to the fact that we’ve never been interested in making ‘folk revival music’ – there’s no finger picking on any of our family records. The folk element in our songs is on a DNA level, stretching back beyond the 1960s wave that folk music is commonly associated with.

Having felt for a long time that pop, and (more importantly to us) lo-fi or bedroom produced music, to now be the true music of the people (accessible to all) – we finally decided we wanted to use more acoustic and ‘traditional’ instrumentation to express this feeling of modernising relics.

Although our personal tradition of using an excess of synthesizers is still very much present all over this album, ‘The Rope’ is very stripped back for us and tells the story of our family music in a way we never have before.

‘by ways of old, make something new, the rope’.”

The track was complemented by the production of Randall Dunn, with Matt Chamberlain ’s expressionistic percussion is a major feature, setting an ancient mood – Chamberlain has worked with some of the folk world’s most legendary figures including Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, along with acclaimed contemporary artists such as Marissa Nadler and Laura Marling.

The release of “The Rope” is accompanied by a black & white video directed by PICTVRE – the creative duo made up of Veronica Crockford -Pound and Joseph Griffen , inspired by 1960s films, Jean-Luc Godard’s sci-fi/noir classic ‘ Alphaville ‘, and Ingmar Bergman’s psychological drama ‘Persona’.

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