Premiere: Flamingods – ‘Taboo Groves’

Colourful, inspirational, and uplifting...

Without getting too political, British music succeeds when it looks outwards, when it contemplates lives and cultures other than its own.

Flamingods certainly look outwards. The band's music pilfers from a huge mosiac of styles, a bric-a-brac of nations, cultures and continents all fused into one potent drop of psychedelia.

New album 'Majesty' is out now on Soundway, and it's a thrilling introduction, laced with colour, energy, and imagination.

Clash is able to premiere the video for 'Taboo Groves', and the uniquely international music is blended with a resolutely English music video.

Shot by Elliott Arndt and Laura Little, the video takes inspiration from an old story surrounding 'the most haunted place in the UK' an old building in Devon, now a pub, which contained a staircase that had been a constant source of misfortune. In an attempt to banish the curse, the owners held a pagan burial for the staircase on top of a hill.

Elliott Arndt explains: “As soon as I heard the track I had this feeling of a large group of friends & freaks together creating a magical and spiritual scene. The staircase represents ascension, illumination, and the burial contrasts with it because of its very nature, death and grounding”.

Check it out now.

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