Exploring Birdsong share punchy video for anthemic new single Weight In Gold

Melodic prog trio Exploring Birdsong drummer Matt Harrison dons the boxing gloves and takes a pummelling in the band's video for their brand new single Weight In Gold.

"The music video is the most fun we’ve ever had on a shoot," the band say. "Really, all of the songs left to release this year each display a different side of us in their own right. Differing vastly from each other, and don’t have a place on our debut album, but are still, completely, authentically us.

"Weight In Gold was another song that was initially written way back during our time in university as part of our songwriting module," comment the band. "In a similar way to The Collpase, it existed in a wildly different form back then, and we knew we wanted to release it at some point, but didn’t want to waste what we thought is one of the strongest choruses we had in the bank. The benefit of having time to leave it alone and eventually revisit it has given us what we think is a song that encapsulates us pretty perfectly - and although up to this point, it’s the poppiest song we’ve released, it still feels like it is a really natural fit within the way our writing and arranging has progressed over the last year or so."

The band are currently working with a new production team of Tom Peters - engineering and mixing and Grant Berry - mastering, as they prepare work for their debut full-length album for Long Branch Records.

Exploring Birdsong released their second EP Dancing In The Face Of Danger last year.

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Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.