Verdant forests and pebbly beaches form the backdrop to Serafina Steer’s performance in this dreamlike video, the second in our two-part feature devoted to the musician’s upcoming third album, The Moths Are Real, produced by Jarvis Cocker. Directed by Maltese multi-instrumentalist Capitol K and shot at the Festival No. 6 in North Wales, the sunny lo-fi footage of ancient trees and cloud-peppered skies is set to Steer’s meandering, uniquely spelled track “Island Odessy”. Britpop figurehead and first-time producer Cocker discovered Steer's atmospheric sounds while presenting his BBC Radio 6 music show. Singing, “They killed your pigs and drank your wine,” she evokes Homer’s epic hero Odysseus and his men's maritime adventures, where a woodland encounter with the witch-goddess Circe turns the crew into swine. “It’s an incredible place, in the middle of nowhere,” the musician notes of the inspiring Welsh environment. Headlined by Spiritualized and New Order, September’s eccentric Festival No. 6 took over the legendary village of Portmeirion, whose mid-20th century design by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis is modeled after pastoral Italian bricolage architecture, and became notorious as the location for the 1960s series, The Prisoner. “It was like trying to break into a prison in the countryside,” says Steer of navigating the event's chaotic scene. “With a harp!”
The Moths Are Real will be released by Stolen Recordings on January 14, 2013. "Night Before Mutiny" will launch this Monday, November 12, at ATP Presents at the Sebright Arms, London.