SPILL VIDEO PREMIERE: MAVEN GRACE – “TAKE ME TO THE WATER”

MAVEN GRACE – “TAKE ME TO THE WATER”

A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE

“Take Me to the Water” is the latest single and video from UK indie / dreampop duo Maven Grace (Henry Jack and Mary Home); premiering exclusively today with The Spill Magazine. “Take Me to the Water” is the fourth single from their soon-to-be-released second album, Surface with a Smile (18 October 2024, on Helium Records), with vinyl preorders for the album recently announced.

Speaking about the new video, Henry Jack says:

“‘Take Me to the Water’ was entirely filmed over the course of a single evening in Dublin’s Docklands district. The video charts the journey from uncertainty to acceptance, and mirrors the distance the song travels from despair to hope.”

Recorded at Abbey Road using a vibraphone left behind by Nick Cave, and with virtuoso drumming from Portishead/Radiohead’s esteemed Clive Deamer, the song floats by on a cloud of skittering percussion, murmured vocals and Hungarian strings. The video was shot by Irish filmmaker Trevor Keogh, and stars celebrated performance artist Marlena, who adds:

“The music to me is about rebirth. We all need to be taken to the water to wash away the past and become our true selves. I particularly connected with the lyrical themes of identity because there are parts of the world where it is very difficult, if not dangerous, to be accepted as your true self. We all need to learn how to breathe, as the song says, and Dublin is a good place do that.”

For the new album, Surface with a Smile, Maven Grace collaborators reprising roles from the debut outing, Sleep Standing Up, include co-producer Chris ‘Merrick’ Hughes (Adam & The Ants, Tears for Fears); multi-instrumentalist Tom White (Electric Soft Parade, Brakes, The Waeve); violinist Diana Galvydyte (the Lithuanian Philharmonic); and bassist Charlie Jones (Goldfrapp, The Cult, Vamberator; and previously Siouxsie Sioux, Shelleyan Orphan, Robert Plant). New to the fold are drummers Clive Deamer (Portishead, Radiohead) and Marcus Efstratiou (Hook & The Twin, Psychid); Craig Chapman on French horn; and mixing engineers Sam Petts-Davies (Radiohead, The Smile, Michael Kiwanuka, Frank Ocean) and Simon Willey (who also plays Omnichord, Witchshifter and Bizzy Fizzy). Surface with a Smile is released 18 October 2024 on Helium Records, with preorders available now.

Maven Grace
Surface With A Smile
(Helium Records)
Release Date: October 18, 2024

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