The Bats Release Video For Single ‘No Trace’

THE BATS RELEASE VIDEO FOR SINGLE ‘NO TRACE’ FROM NEW ALBUM 'THE DEEP SET'

Five years after the release of their last critically acclaimed album, The Bats have returned with album number nine, The Deep Set. A band that continues to defy the odds, allmusic.com recently hailed the band as “one of New Zealand's great treasures... anytime they make a record, especially one as good as The Deep Set, it's an event worth celebrating.”

Today, the celebration continues with the unveiling of the video for chiming summer single ‘No Trace’.

The video is a heartwarming Scooby-Doo styled game of hide and seek, following a group of children around a rambling house on a scorching summer’s day. Directed by Andrei Talili and shot by Scott Jackson, the video beautifully visualises the band’s trademark jangle and bounce and charmingly echoes Robert Scott’s lyrics of landscape and longing - ‘lost in the street / trying to meet / someone to try and help me / faces around look to the ground / wondering what might be’. A blend of planned shots and spontaneous following, it’s a romantic walkabout around the Christchurch house sure to evoke a nostalgic fuzz in the most adult of eyes. The video’s youthful talent appear delighted in each other’s company; the game punctuated by joyous air guitar sessions and culminating in a fort hangout worthy of Little Rascals.

To see the video, click here

The Bats - No Trace
Song written and performed by Robert Scott / The Bats
Recorded at The Sitting Room with Ben Edwards
Producer - Annabel Kean
Director - Andrei Talili
Director of Photography - Scott Jackson
Editor - Joseph Hardman
Starring Maeve, Otto, Hannah and Isla.
Filmed at Marg and Chris’s lovely home in Cashmere, Christchurch, New Zealand

The Deep Set is out now on Flying Nun

"Four decades into their career, The Bats continue to produce sparkling and chiming pop that sounds as fresh now as it does when David Lange was New Zealand's Prime Minister.”  - Noisey
"Remarkably, the band's original lineup remains intact. So too does that dreamy, disconsolate feeling that settles in whenever The Bats' best music takes hold and nimbly seeps under your skin”- PITCHFORK

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