Villagers by Andrew Whitton
Villagers’ new album is due out on May 10th.
Conor O’Brien has picked You Lucky One as the new single from his forthcoming sixth Villagers album Fever Dreams.
It’s a natural choice for a single given its ties to part of the album’s art design, an Irish twenty pence piece.
“The types of physical currency change throughout time, but the essential power relationships and bartering principles persevere throughout the cosmetic changes,” O’Brien said.
O’Brien also made his directorial debut on the video – which he described as, ‘a complicated, messy affair full of hellish landscapes and internal demons’:
It exists in a world conquered by irrational beings and emotional, selfish creatures. Corruption of the soul and disingenuous motivation are the order of the day, so I thought it best to serve with a side plate of the macabre and sinister.
