Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy has launched the song with its own beer.
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy‘s Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You album has finally got a title-track.
Released earlier this year, the song of the same name wasn’t included on the LP, but is out now with a video directed by Adam Laity and the beer which was brewed by the independent Kendal outlet Gan Yam.
“Will sent me the demo for Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You about a year ago,” Laity has recalled. “I found the song so romantic – the idea of chucking a suitcase in car and heading off on a journey with a lover.”
And also the humility in the idea of being unable to grow old if we don’t come to terms with our faults, in the way that only someone you’re in love with can reveal to you. Agnes Varda said, ‘If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes’. The video is really about the affective resonance that landscapes can have for us, that sometimes last our whole lives.
“It started with the idea of clouds passing over Will’s face, and really it just grew from there. I wasn’t particularly interested in the video ‘making sense’, but rather it was about trying to visualize the energy and flow of the song.”
