Today, Wednesday 18th January 2023, Alberta Cross release the video for new single ‘Glow In The Dark’, watch HERE.
‘Glow In The Dark’ is the second single to be taken from new album ‘Sinking Ships’, which will be released on Friday 31st March 2023. The video is once again directed by Luis Velasco and shot on super8 and MiniDV cameras in Barcelona and Montseny Natural Park. It features the art-fashion photographer and model Nereis Ferrer, along with Swedish-born lead singer and guitarist Petter Ericson Stakee. Luis comments: “The video makes an approach to the seeking-process of artists to discover a new departure point for the creative process. A journey of tricky games with your own mind and the outside world”.
‘Glow In The Dark’ matches the overall theme of the album, mental health: “I am an Island, and that is why I can get lost at sea” - a feeling of being alone, but also accepting the want to be alone. Petter comments: “The ‘Circling’ chorus, when it finally drops, serves as a release to the darkness of the rest of the track - something or someone that serves as a way through life’s difficulties - a coping mechanism, good or bad. A way back out of our own battles that we often fight silently”.
Since forming in 2005 - Alberta Cross have toured with Mumford & Sons, Portugal. The Man, Neil Young, Them Crooked Vultures (David Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones) and Rag N’ Bone Man to name a few, performed on TV around the world including The Late Show with David Letterman and Last Call with Carson Daly, had tracks featured in multiple US hit TV series (Million Little Pieces, Sons of Anarchy, Californication) and released six previous albums. Now back in the UK, Petter will be promoting the new album in the UK and across Europe throughout 2023, with US dates to come.
Watch the video for ‘Glow In The Dark’ HERE
‘Sinking Ships’ will be released on Friday 31st March 2023 through Dark Matter / AMK distributed through Kartel Music Group, pre-order HERE.
New album ‘Sinking Ships’ was written mostly at the legendary The Wool Hall in Frome Somerset with Petter’s long term producer and collaborator, Luke Potashnick - Luke recently bought and renovated The Wool Hall (legendary in part due to Van Morrisson and Tears for Fears recording albums there). The album, which will be Alberta Cross’ seventh, has definitely taken longer than was first expected, Petter comments: “After everything the world has seen these past two years, the album took longer than we expected to record and release…the writing side of it actually came together quite quickly. But now that it is finally coming out, the timing actually feels serendipitous - the themes and lyrics of these songs do in fact reflect what’s going on in the world today. Even though I wrote some of these tunes a while ago they strangely feel more relevant today than they did back then”.
Luke comments: “I adore the feeling of this record - when writing together, Petter and I always end up somewhere on the same page - maybe it's the Scandinavian in us, maybe it's the life-stage we both share. I am particularly fond of ‘Mercy’ and ‘Sinking Ships’. A lot of the landscape of these songs were set up back in a basement in Sweden…the main reason I single out these two songs is in how Petter's voice soars on these recordings. I feel they are truly unique to Petter’s way of singing and I’m always very excited when we manage to capture that”.