UK Post-Punk Act Modern Woman Share New Single & Video “Ford”

London-based post-punk group Modern Woman, comprised of frontperson and guitarist Sophie Harris, bassist Juan Brint-Gutierrez, multi-instrumentalist David Denyer, and drummer Adam Blackhurst, have shared their new single and video “Ford”.

“‘Ford’ has been one of the oldest songs in our repertoire.”, says singer and guitarist Sophie Harris, “I wrote the bassline loop for it a long time ago, one day when I only had a bass to hand. I structured the song and added guitar and simple vocal. I wanted to give it a raw and slightly sinister feel to it. We can spend an incredibly long time working a song in our practise space before we ever play it live, so we wanted to make sure that energy resonated through the recording”

With a menacing and haunting energy, the song crawls forward, mirroring its cinematic visual accompaniment. Directed by the band’s previous collaborator Sandra Ebert and filmed in the Cambridgeshire countryside, the music video features Harris in ominous settings.

She adds, “Lyrically, it is about a girl who borrows her brother’s Ford and drives it around. For Juan’s vocals towards the end of the song, I went with a William Burroughs-esque cut up technique and collected different car-related writings, chopped them up and reformed them.”

Watch it below:

Tour dates:

July 22nd – Suffolk, UK @ Latitude Festival

Aug 13th – Nottingham, UK @ Bodega

Sept 1st-4th – Salisbury, UK @ End of the Road Festival

Sept 24th – Sheffield, UK @ Float Along Festival

Oct 30th – Bristol, UK @ Louisiana *

Oct 31st – Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds *

Nov 1st – Dublin, IRE @ The Workman’s Club *

Nov 3rd – Manchester, UK @ YES Pink Room *

Nov 4th – Glasgow, UK @ Broadcast *

Nov 5th – Leeds, UK @ Belgrave Music Hall *

Nov 7th – Cambridge, UK @ Portland Arms *

Nov 8th – Leicester, UK @ Firebug *

Nov 10th – London, UK @ Scala *

Nov 12th – Southampton, UK @ Joiners *

Nov 13th – Brighton, UK @ Green Door Store *

* W/ TV Priest