Villagers Share Video For “Circles In The Firing Line” From Latest Album Fever Dreams

Last month, Irish indie rock act Villagers released their fifth album Fever Dreams. Frontman Conor O’Brien saw Fever Dreams as a way of bringing the real and the surreal together, exploring human connection from various fronts. From the collection is the trippy new video for “Circles In The Firing Line”.The 6-and-a-half-minute track is the perfect showcase of the music found on Fever Dreams, songs that twist and turn with the magical ambivalence of dreams, through psychedelic textures and omnipresent musical dopamine.

The accompanying video for “Circles In The Firing Line” is an animated odyssey that nods to surrealistic collage and retro computer games before dissolving into a more liminal, abstract space. About the release, Conor says: “I like Keats’ concept of ‘negative capability’ which he defines as ‘when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason’. This is a song about when our negative capability fails us. I think the internet has a lot to answer for.”

Director Rosie Barrett adds, “It was such a joy to team up with Conor again for this brilliant song. From the very first listen, I felt this piece really needed to live in another world, and that’s what we set out to do. Starting with a green screen process shot by the superb cinematographer, Albert Hooi, while also working together with Conor on themes for this dystopian world of doom was a really interesting and fun process.

For the build, I had the pleasure of working collaboratively with the immensely talented motion designer Cian McKenna on the amazing visual world, accompanied by beautiful animation inside Conor’s brain by the brilliant ‘Eat the Danger,’ while also having great fun bringing in my own design collage elements made by hand too.”

The result is a splendid and colourful journey between time, space, sound, and sights, showcasing the spectacular songwriting of Villagers.

Watch below and check out previous favourite “So Simpatico” here.