“Lauren Bacall (the music) is in regards to the awkwardness of single life and one evening stands … after which love at first sight,” says musician Stolen Nova, whose new music video sees him cavorting round a nostalgic model of London. Directed by Charlie Denis – who describes the music video as “a trailer to a film that doesn’t exist” – Josh Landau (the frontman of Stolen Nova) voyages via England’s capital; travelling on the London underground, popping out and in of crimson phone containers with name lady playing cards that come to life, enjoying darts within the pub, or enjoying guitar in a mattress decked out with Union Jack sheets.
Denis hails from London, however Landau is from Los Angeles – and the music video depicts an idealised, foreigner’s model of the town in all its patriotic glory. “I initially needed to shoot a video with Josh in Los Angeles as a result of my fascination with LA is akin to his with London, and being from right here, my eyes are too acquainted and due to this fact apathetic to the sights {that a} California babe like him would discover unique,” says Denis. “However it was enjoyable to run round London with another person’s goggles on and nearly expertise its appeal for the primary time once more.”
The town’s appeal, nevertheless, is just not for everybody. “We ran round city within the freezing chilly nighttime and stood in piss-filled alleys in Chinatown taking pictures between bursts of rain to seize this imaginative and prescient he had for me and this music,” explains Landau. Nonetheless, “I could not be extra grateful,” he says. “He actually makes cinematic magic occur.”
