Video: Slow Club, ‘Ancient Rolling Sea’

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Slow Club (Photos by Laura McCluskey)
Slow Club (Photos by Laura McCluskey)

Over almost 10 years, U.K. duo Slow Club — Charles Watson and Rebecca Taylor — have morphed from twee folkies to purveyors more complex sounds, all of which trade on the pair’s palpable chemistry. Their third album, 2014’s “Complete Surrender,” was a rich excursion into soul music, and they return Aug. 19 with their fourth full-length, “One Day All Of This Won’t Matter Anymore.” The new single “Ancient Rolling Sea” sounds like Watson and Taylor spending every waking hour together, but, a decade after they started making music together in Sheffield, they actually now live in different cities, no matter the tender chorus “I’ll always be by your side.” The duo made the album with gothic folk guru Matthew E. White at his Richmond,  Va., studio Spacebomb, with the house band (guitarist Alan Parker, drummer Pinson Chanselle, bassist Cameron Ralston and keyboardist player Daniel Clarke) backing them. They suggest the album has a “candlelit” vibe, and considering the beautiful languor of the single, it might not be false advertising. What else is on the menu?

||| Watch: The video for “Ancient Rolling Sea”

||| Previously: “Everything Is New,” “Two Cousins”