PREMIERE: Corner Boy release magical video for new single 'Kingdom Come and Go'

Wexford born indie-folk band, Corner Boy, have released a captivating new video for their latest single 'Kingdom Come and Go'. Hot Press is delighted to be premiering the video below!

A fine tuned meld of contemporary and traditional, Corner Boy have released 'Kingdom Come and Go' as the second single from their forthcoming debut album, coming October 2022. The follow up for 'Blackstairs Winter Snow' is a knock-out punch of energetic feel-good indie/folk, featuring exploding brass sections, racing fiddle crescendo, and an ear-worm chorus. The explosive track boasts a very misleading introduction, erupting into a cacophony of harmony, drums, strings, keys, and so on. With a sickly-sweet melody hinting at a country-leaning sound, this track is guaranteed to be stuck in your head for hours after your first listen.

According to a press release, the song "explores the conversation of connection; highs, lows, certainties and uncertainty through heartfelt melody and poignant lyrics."

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The video follows the theme of unexpectedness, with band members emerging as the story unfolds. This magical visual is very fitting for such an upbeat, heart-warming track.

These seasoned musicians have certainly been through the "highs" and "lows" featured in this single. The alt-folk outfit spent a good chunk of 2018 touring around South Korea, the Middle East, Florida, and everything in between, before releasing their debut EP Goodbye Old Holy in November of the same year.

In 2020, after the pandemic forced the world to a standstill, the band's 2002 Ford Transit gig van (affectionately named Sheila) was forced into indisposition. The sextet were obliged to bring their almost a decade of late-night driving, couch surfing and service station dinners fuelled ramblings to a halt and record an album. Under the tutelage of producer Gavin Glass (David Keenan, Lisa Hannigan), the group retired to Orphan Studios, emerging from the other side of the pandemic with a debut album in hand.

The forthcoming album - title yet to be revealed - is "very much the aural amalgam, the album explores in varying degrees combinations of folk, rock, traditional, bluegrass and alternative."

Check out the video for 'Kingdom Come and Go' below.