Flying Nun Records Music News

‘Unchained’ is a playfully earnest song about being open to the unforeseeable future. “It’s about releasing myself from feeling unworthy and incapable of getting what I deserve. The wisdom of knowing that certain things will make sense eventually, so there’s no need to worry.”

Clementine Valentine, the Coromandel-based art-pop duo formerly known as Purple Pilgrims, share the fourth and final single ‘Selenelion’ off their upcoming album, The Coin that Broke the Fountain Floor, out August 25th via Flying Nun Records. The duo will also be performing four intimate shows around the country this September. Tickets are available at Banishedmusic.com.'Selenelion' embraces the duo's folk roots, through ethereal vocals, and elevated, gentle orchestration. Clementine and Valentine, explain, “Selenelion is a type of lunar eclipse where both the sun and moon appear in the sky at the same time. As a story the song is based on aspects of countless old folk songs and fables. A star-crossed...

The band says: “The song’s about putting in the hard yards before you have a beer. Sometimes it’s tempting to skip straight to cracking one open, but it’ll hit so much harder if you put in the work and get sweaty first. As soon as we figured that out we made a song about it.”

Vera Ellen won the residency award over 20 other highly qualified applicants from Aotearoa, Australia, Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Pakistan, Ukraine and USA.