In case you missed it, London alt-rockers Another Sky just dropped a new single and details about their debut album I Slept on the Floor on Annie Mac’s BBC 1 show. The band promises songs addressing politics, climate change, and mental health, all with vocalist Catrin Vincent’s gruff falsetto as narrator.
The song they shared with Mac, though, is a bit smaller in scope than their typical themes—“Fell in Love With the City” is a gentle track with self-explanatory subject matter, though Vincent also notes that in a way it also serves as a break-up song. “I hate breakup songs,” she clarifies. “I don’t know why, it’s the most universal feeling. Maybe because the world has so many of them. Moving to London was a dramatic shift from small-town life where it didn’t even occur to me I could do music, where this vision of me as a housewife who never amounted to anything felt inescapable, into a bigger world, of people from all over, of new ideas and a new version of myself.”
For the song’s music video, the band collected footage from their first tour and early years together with the goal of filming London as they would a person they’re falling in love with. “We asked if any of our fans had an old mini DV tape camera, and they came through,” she continues, shouting out Peter Kavanagh, Victoria Wai, and Henry Kenyon. “We tried to capture the excitement of being on the road for the first time, replicating the feeling of moving to London seven years ago. “Fell In Love With The City” is the second song we ever wrote as a band and we wanted to make a video that embodied the way you’d film a partner, but you’re filming a city instead.”
Watch the video below.
