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LAUCAN shares the striking, drone-shot video for ‘Up Tomorrow’, taken from his debut EP due 10th March on Sunday Best

February 7, 2017

LAUCAN

Shares ‘Up Tomorrow‘ Video

‘Up Tomorrow’ EP Due 10th March on Sunday Best

Confirmed for Deer Shed Festival in July

When Lewes-raised newcomer Laucan began singing in falsetto after the break-up of an old band, he had his reasons. “I didn’t want anyone hearing my songs through the door of my room,” recalls Laurence Galpin, the 27-year-old behind the Laucan (pronunciation: Lor-can) moniker.

Thankfully, his newfound readiness to be heard doesn’t come at any cost to his distinct voice on his debut EP, Up Tomorrow, released March 10th on Sunday Best. Between its impressionist lyrical images, spectral folk beauty and enveloping soundscapes, Up Tomorrow is a gorgeous, glowing introduction to a singer who found something special in his attic-based isolation.

Today, Laucan unveils the video for “Up Tomorrow” via Nowness; a playful exploration of texture and scale which documents the varied landscape of the UK from a birds eye view. Directed by Laucan, Oliver Jennings, James Heaphy, and shot by drone, the clip contrasts intricate cityscapes with wild natural landscapes, which Laucan describes as “a combination of realism and psychedelia.” Watch it below…

Laucan says of the video, “I think that the images have the effect of removing you somewhat from your body and changing your perception of your environment, and somehow that feeling of floating outside of yourself resonates in the song.”

Oliver Jennings continues, “As we explored more and more with the drone we discovered even the countryside is etched with intricate man made pattern, whether it be from pathways, farming etc. We also played around with scale, shooting close to the ground and up high.”

James Heaphy also adds, “Both Olly and I wanted to create most of the visuals in camera rather than in post-production, and the drone seemed the most logical and also exciting way to do this. The whole process was extremely experimental, and a thoroughly liberating project to work on as a filmmaker. In fact I think some of the most interesting shots in the video were of things we came across by chance, which created a really surreal look to piece, and is what makes it unique.”

“Sunlight pours through the doorway, picks out patterns on the floor,” sings Galpin on the title-track, his falsetto taking wing over a rich bedding of reverberant guitars, synth atmospherics, tender percussion and bird song. With Andrew Phillips of Ninja Tune’s post-rock duo Grasscut as his collaborator, Galpin composes with a cinematic auteur’s sense of shading and world-building and a flair for sound art that evokes a sense of environment shows in his work. “Where I Should Be” is a lushly gorgeous study in atmosphere. A forthright side to Galpin’s voice shows on “DLMA”, before “Tectonic Plates” showcases his falsetto at his most exquisitely delicate.

This is richly tended music, made by a man who took the slow, careful route here. If you hear a British psychedelic folk influence at work, Galpin’s background bears it out. He grew up in Lewes, in the South Downs: “Famed for its Wicker Man-esque bonfire celebrations,” Galpin notes. At 16, he formed a short-lived band that imploded, he recalls, “while stitching together a 40-minute continuous prog/math rock monstrosity”. After moving to London, Galpin felt out of phase with the competitive and fast paced nature of the city, and looked to the past for influence.

Submerged in what he calls “folk music of increasing obscurity”, Galpin began writing songs such as “DLMA” (Don’t Love Me Anymore), a track steeped in the kind of anxiety of expression that often haunts artists who refuse to follow trends, preferring to create their own off-piste worlds. “Eventually,” he says, “I decided that either I release them or I just give up writing music.” We’re all the better for the choice Galpin made: his tomorrows are looking up.

 

Live Dates:
21-23 July – Deershed Festival

‘Up Tomorrow’ Tracklisting
1. Up Tomorrow
2. Where I Should Be
3. DLMA
4. Tectonic Plates

Preorder:
http://hyperurl.co/UpTomorrow

 

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