White Lies will be releasing their fourth album ‘Friends’ on October 7th, the first release under a new deal with BMG.
Check out this epic video, their first single from the album is called ‘Take It Out On Me’.
The band collaborated with award winning Mexican film director David Pablos to create their video after they saw ‘The Chosen Ones’ a film by Pablos, on Netflix and tracked the director down via Facebook.
‘Take It Out On Me’ is the debut music video by the cult director. Says Pablos of the video “I had wanted to make a music video for quite a long time. I told everyone I knew in Mexico, how much I was looking for this opportunity, but nothing happened… And suddenly, out of nowhere, I got a message from White Lies, inviting me to collaborate with them! How exciting this was! The music video for “Take It Out On Me” is a reinterpretation of traditional stories of saints, in modern day Tijuana, mixed with elements from the film “Theorem” by Pier Paolo Pasolini. A little bit of dark humour and that’s the final result!”
“Right up until we recorded the song it was called 89-1-3,” says White Lies' Charles Cave. “It was inspired by a lunatic on Instagram who kept commenting on a friend’s photos in pseudo Biblical verse. From his profile I discovered he lived in a remote cabin with a rough-looking dog. He posted weird videos in which he quoted random numbers. As a challenge, I turned them in to a song. The only problem was that it went so well everyone said it should be the first single, so I relented and gave the chorus real lyrics.”
‘Friends’ was recorded in Bryan Ferry’s private studio in London’s Olympia and was self-produced by the band.
