Brooklyn’s Shop Talk have shared “Black Friar” from their recent EP The Offering, out now on Mon Amie Records.

Speaking about the video the band says “Elizabeth Siddal served as a muse to a number of Pre-Raphaelite artists, marrying one of them. Her husband, Dante Rossetti, saw her as a kind of reincarnation of Dante Alighieri’s muse, Beatrice, and projected this fantasy onto the flesh-and-blood woman he’d married. Siddal’s corpse was exhumed some 7 years after her death, and it’s said that her remains were beautiful and untouched by rot… In a nutshell, this song is about the desire to connect with the dead through works of art (if not through literal exhumation!), and the curious relationship between an artist and their muse.

The band have had a busy spring since release and continue gaining momentum, having played shows throughout NYC as well as supporting Algiers (Matador) on part of their 2023 US Tour and recently opening for Pissed Jeans.

Stream The Offering HERE.