Oxford band Glass Animals follow the success of being nominated for the Mercury Prize for their album How To Be A Human Being with a new video for 'Agnes'.

The press release claims the video is filmed in a Human Centrifuge - a machine used to train astronauts to cope with the g-force - after the band were inspired by a scene where Roger Moore is put through one in the Bond film Moonraker.

Without the Hollywood budget to get the full Bond impact they seem to have been quite inventive in portraying the intensity of someone being spun in one with close camera angles never fully revealing the set.

The video is shot by Eoin Glaster, who has also worked with Catfish and The Bottlemen, and he does well to mirror the rising intensity in the song and increasing unsettleness that someone in a Human Centrifuge might feel.

The band claim the idea is used to portray grief in an inventive way, and having the world spinning and losing your sense of control is definitely something that grief could induce. It's suited to the well-polished track that oozes with emotion from the dramatic strings, tense synth samples and heartfelt pop falsetto vocals.
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