NEW ALBUM ‘A SINGLE FLOWER’ RELEASED 4TH JULY
Australian post-rock band WE LOST THE SEA recently announced details of their fifth studio album ' A Single Flower' which is due for release on Friday July 4.
Today sees the release of the new single 'Everything Here is Black and Blinding’. The band state,
"This is technically We Lost The Sea’s first proper music video. It’s always been a challenge to try and make videos for songs as long as we write. So when we landed on this 7 minute banger, we decided to go for it. We enlisted the help of our friend, and fellow Bird’s Robe band dad, Simeon (SEIMS, Birdman), who is a TV guy by trade, to help us put this together.
He and the team did an incredible job and made it look like a million bucks (definitely did not cost a million bucks). The video follows a sole protagonist (the very talented Emma Dunstan) who dances and writhes her way around a cursed space to outrun her inner
demons only to embrace the darkness in the end. To tie it in to the wider theme of the album it references inspiration from Frida Kahlo, a revolutionary, artist and somewhat cursed individual herself.
This song is meant to be a protest, a war cry against evil. It has two distinct halves that transition from dark to light which brings it into the world that we’ve created for the new record.”
Credits
Performed by Emma Dunstan
Creative Concept by Matt Harvey
Directed and Edited by Simeon Bartholomew
Director of Photography: Pat Harris
1st AC: John Katz
Gaffer: Beau Moulson
Stylist: Amy Love
Colourist: Jakes Maina
Colour House: The Factory Collective
Production Assist: Alasdair Belling
‘A Single Flower’ follows five years after their fourth album TRIUMPH & DISASTER which was released just ahead of the pandemic and seemed to foreshadow the era of intensity which followed. It reached the Top 50 charts in Australia upon its released, and the band’s eventual tour in support of the record saw them sell out shows across Europe, the UK, Australia & Asia. The band’s breakout record was their critically-acclaimed 2015 album DEPARTURE SONGS which featured the standout track A Gallant Gentleman (featured in the Ricky Gervais series ‘Afterlife’). Departure Songs has amassed millions of streams worldwide and sold over 10,000 copies in physical formats.
'A Single Flower' is available to pre-order on LP, CD & digital formats from welostthesea.com & locally via Bird's Robe (Australia), Dunk (Europe), Translation Loss (USA) & New Noise (China).
The album also includes a special guest appearance by Sophie Trudeau from Godspeed You! Black Emperor on 'The Gloaming.'
They are also celebrating the 10th anniversary of their iconic ‘Departure Songs’ album, which they will perform in full at Post Festival USA and ArcTanGent Festival UK.
WE LOST THE SEA will be touring the USA and UK in support of ‘A Single Flower’ throughout July & August, with further dates for Asia, Australia & Europe to be announced.
WE LOST THE SEA ‘A SINGLE FLOWER’ US TOUR JULY 2025
With special guests Hubris
Tue 15 July – RBC @ Deep Ellum – Dallas TX
Thu 17 July – Masquerade (Purgatory) – Atlanta GA
Sat 19 July – Meadows – Brooklyn NY
Sun 20 July – Milkboy – Philadelphia PA
Mon 21 July – DC9 – Washington DC
Wed 23 July – Grog Shop – Cleveland OH
Thu 24 July – Post Festival, The Hi Fi – Indianapolis IN
Sat 26 July – Post Festival, The Hi Fi – Indianapolis IN
Tickets from welostthesea.com & birdsrobe.com
WE LOST THE SEA UK TOUR 2025
Thu 14 Aug – ArcTanGent Festival UK
Fri 15 Aug – ArcTanGent Festival UK
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