New album “Wait Until The Flames Come Rushing In” will follow on 30th June (vinyl LP, CD, digital). The single and album are co-released by Skep Wax Records and French labels Howlin’ Banana Records and Hidden Bay Records.
Paris-based duo Special Friend are American Erica Ashleson and French Guillaume Siracusa. They have a sound that’s somehow minimal and epic. On “Selkie”, her insistent drums, his reverberating guitar, and the plaintive melody in their voices join forces to conjure up the spirit of a beautiful, unknowable creature…
According to folk tales and mythology, a selkie is a seal who can swim ashore, shed her skin and transform herself into a beautiful human being for a while. Those folk tales also tell of Man’s cruelty – of selkies whose discarded sealskins were destroyed while they were in human form, deliberately preventing them from ever reclaiming their true animal identities.
“Selkie” is a song about magic and about cruelty. About celebrating and respecting the poetry of different beings, and accepting the fact that we should never try to master them. The video was shot in France and in Spain while Special Friend were on tour.
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