Back in May, London trio Flyte shared a new single with an accompanying video from BAFTA-winning director Mark Jenkin (for his film Bait), which the rockers are following up with yet another collaboration—this time for their new, Andrew Sarlo–produced single “Losing You.” Documenting a breakup, the song’s lyrics match the video’s nostalgic, heartbreaking appeal.
“Every detail of ‘Losing You’ is taken directly from the week after a breakup,” shares the band’s Will Taylor. “We actually got back together and years later it ended again but this time the roles had been reversed. It felt strangely poignant singing a song that I was initially directing at someone who’d hurt me, to then turn it around and sing it back at myself. I don’t think Flyte was ready to take on this song until now. We were finally confident enough to just play the song and not add any extra production, and let the lyrics do all the talking. Andrew Sarlo [Big Thief, Bon Iver] wanted it to feel like the track never left the lonely bedroom. Like the band just came over, jammed out the song and that was that.”
Director Jenkin adds, “The idea for the aesthetic came from spooling through old VHS tapes in my studio and seeing the various layers of recordings reveal themselves. I liked the idea of an old black-and-white film having been partially recorded over with some home movie footage and the two then seeming to have a bit of a conversation with each other, despite being separated by time and place. Those strange accidental counterpoints only seem to exist in the analogue world. Digital footage of the band (shot by Tee Byford) was then repeatedly looped to VHS, with the colour bleeding and drifting with each new generation. The film element was shot on a Bolex, with the negative processed by hand, scanned, and copied to video tape.”
Watch the video below, and stream it here.
