This is Video of the Week from Wales Arts Review. We’ll be showcasing some of the best art in Wales with a new video shared every week. From music to drama and everything in between, videos will not be limited by medium. Today we’re featuring the surreal video for the new single from Ritual Cloak, ‘Left Behind’.
Duo Daniel Barnett and Andrew Sanders, better known as Ritual Cloak, return this spring with a new EP and the single featured for this week’s Video of the Week, ‘Left Behind’.
Ritual Cloak take a more introspective and meditative direction with new EP, Vanished in Transition, venturing into new musical territories that draw influence from ambient, jazz, doom metal and George Harrison’s Indian explorations. Leaning into down-tempo rhythms, drums have been exchanged for heart-beats, as if this EP is the duo breathing deep in readiness to face the next chapter. Recorded at home and their own studio in Cardiff, Vanished in Transition’s theme plays with the fascination of disappearing, although the duo have no such plans of vanishing any time soon.
‘Left Behind’ draws on the influence of George Harrison and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. The song revolves around a sitar-like guitar line that we knew we wanted to have constantly looping to create a meditative drone. The lyrics are a collage of different lines and ideas that when brought together create a story of a long-forgotten ‘saviour’ that’s coming back but nobody needs them anymore.
Daniel Barnett explains: “’Left Behind’ wouldn’t exist without the influence of George Harrison and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. The song revolves around a sitar-like guitar line that we knew we wanted to have constantly looping to create a meditative drone. The lyrics are a collage of different lines and ideas that when brought together to create a story of a long-forgotten ‘saviour’ that’s coming back but nobody needs them anymore.”
‘Left Behind’ is available now and will be followed by the band’s new album Vanished in Transition, which will be released on 14th April 2023, via Bubblewrap Collective.
