Scottish indie pop outfit Belle & Sebastian have shared the music video for their latest single "Nobody's Empire," which you can check out below. The video, directed by Blair Young and frontman Stuart Murdoch, features footage from the cover photoshoot for the band's upcoming album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, with model Tamzin Merchant lip-synching the lyrics, intercut with home movies submitted by fans and stock footage taken from the Scottish Screen Archive and the Prelinger Archives.
According to a press release (via Stereogum), Murdoch calls the song "absolutely the most personal [song]" he's ever written, with lyrics dealing with his prolonged health issues as a child.
You can check out the music video for Belle & Sebastian's "Nobody's Empire" right here:
"Nobody's Empire" is the second single and second music video to be shared from Belle & Sebastian's upcoming studio album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, following "The Party Line." The album will be Belle & Sebastian's ninth overall, their first studio effort since 2010's Write About Love, and their first full-length release since their 2013 B-sides and rarities compilation The Third Eye Centre.
Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance is Belle & Sebastian's first album to be distributed worldwide by Matador Records, who had previously only handled the band's American distribution. It will also be their first collaboration with producer Ben H. Allen. The album is set for release on Jan. 19 in Europe and Jan. 20 in the United States, and can be pre-ordered right here.
You can check out the tracklist for Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance right here:
01. Nobody’s Empire
02. Allie
03. The Party Line
04. The Power of Three
05. The Cat with the Cream
06. Enter Sylvia Plath
07. The Everlasting Muse
08. Perfect Couples
09. Ever Had a Little Faith?
10. Play for Today
11. The Book of You
12. Today (This Army’s for Peace)
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