A new Flyte song! New Flyte! Remain calm. Following last year's
return with the White Roses EP (featuring The Staves dreamy) the
band recently shared Easy Tiger, with a video from Bafta winning
director Mark Jenkin. Latest track Losing You is another
heartbreaker, with a video continuing the collaboration between Mark and the
band. The band recorded the track in LA with Justin Raisen (Angel Olsen, Ariel Pink) and Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief, Bon Iver) producing, and Ali Chant (Aldous Harding) on mixing duties.
Talking about the track, Will explains that
"every detail of Losing You is taken directly from the week after a
breakup. 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 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”
On the video, direct Mark Jenkin shares that
"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."
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