Hot Press are excited to premiere the brand new visuals for Ivor Novello award-winning songwriter Scott Matthews' latest single 'Wait in the Car'.

Taken from his forthcoming album New Skin, the soaring new track features ambient synthesisers and ambient electric guitars resonant of the Cocteau Twins. Matthews masterfully interlaces melancholy and euphoria in 'Wait in the Car', using his trademark gift for emotional resonance to capture his audience.

The accompanying clip brings nostalgia to the fore, paralleling with the creative's voice perfectly.

According to the English musician, his forthcoming seventh album New Skin is "a state of mind".

A performer who specialises in conveying the emotional complexities of love and loss in sparse, warm-hearted acoustic songs found himself at a stage of fundamental reinvention.

New Skin is a record that Matthews has been working towards for six or seven years. Around the time of Home Part I, the first of a deft and beautiful two-part song cycle, Matthews imagined this project. ‘My Selfless Moon’ was actually written at the start of his career.

“It’s been in formulation for some years," Scott says of the riveting new work.

"With every record you are dictated to by the context or mood. It just so happens that every record I’ve made there’s always been a pool of songs that didn’t quite fit in. It feels fitting for all those rogue songs that weren’t sure of their place to have finally come together.”

“I felt I had to break the mould I’d cast myself in," Matthews adds.

"The desire to explore an idea that was always written in bold on my ‘to do’ list - a world of organic samples, programmed beats, grainy synthesisers, electric baritone guitar has always fascinated me. It was like discovering the ‘80s for the first time. Being the writer and the musician, you are responsible for your actions. You’re controlling the listener’s feelings in that moment. I was conscious of wanting people to feel that sense of urgency and charge in themselves and to break the shackles.”

In 2006, Matthews released his ground breaking debut album Passing Stranger, which contained an eclectic mix of musical styles. September of that year saw the release of the artist's first single, 'Elusive', which won the Ivor Novello Award for 'Best Song Musically and Lyrically' in May 2007. Since then, the singer-songwriter has not only embarked on a number of sell-out headline tours, but has also toured with some of the world's most respected artists - including, Foo Fighters, Snow Patrol, Rufus Wainwright, Tori Amos and Robert Plant.

Since then, through the daring Elsewhere and the immersive What the Night Delivers, through his affectionate ‘Home’ Part I & II song cycle and his thoughtful and elegiac The Great Untold, Matthews has refined his craft.

Pre-Order New Skin from Scott Matthews' website here.

Check out the nostalgic Damien Hyde-directed visuals for 'Wait in the Car' below:

Photo Credit: Damien Hyde