Minor Victories (Slowdive, Mogwai, Editors) Announce Debut Album, Share "A Hundred Ropes"

Photo by Sally Lockey

Minor Victories is the supergroup of Slowdive‘s Rachel Goswell, Editors‘ Justin Lockey, Mogwai‘s Stuart Braithwaite, and James Lockey of Hand Held Cine Club. Today, they’ve announced their debut album. The self-titled record is out June 3 on Fat Possum (US) and Play It Again Sam (worldwide). It’ll feature Mark Kozelek’s previously reported duet with Goswell, as well as a collaboration with the Twilight Sad’s James Graham. Below, watch the Hand Held Cine Club-directed video for “A Hundred Ropes,” featuring a band of samurai charging through a field in extremely slow motion.

Speaking about the video, Justin Lockey said:

So it’s a one shot.. only actually 10 seconds of real time footage stretched out over minutes, with our humdinger of a tune relentlessly pounding away as the soundtrack! There’s an actual reason for this too! Basically the way I see it, we’re at a point where music videos or as they are most commonly known as nowadays “bits of content for the internets” are so crammed with narrative with an insane and relentless amounts of cuts / editing etc to keep you interested that it’s become the norm to Tony Scott the fuck out of every single frame these days…(we know as we are definitely 100% guilty of this on numerous occasions in the past!) But nowadays to be totally honest it just gives me a massive fucking headache watching music videos most of the time!

So, at the end of the day there’s nothing quite like the simplicity and beauty of a one shot done right… And a bunch of samurai’s emerging from a field and charging towards you at just under 1000 fps in monochrome? Well that’s always gonna look pretty cool whichever way you cut it.

Minor Victories:

01 Give Up The Ghost
02 A Hundred Ropes
03 Breaking My Light
04 Scattered Ashes (Song for Richard) [ft. James Graham]
05 Folk Arp
06 Cogs
07 For You Always [ft. Mark Kozelek]
08 Out To Sea
09 The Thief
10 Higher Hopes

Watch the album’s first trailer, Minor Victories – Film One, via Pitchfork.tv:

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