Premiere: The Clockworks Shares New Video for “Misplaced within the Second”

Debut Album Exit Technique Out Now

Nov 10, 2023

By Caleb Campbell

Pictures by Oscar J. Ryan

Over the previous few years, London-based Irish alt rock quartet The Clockworks have steadily constructed a following with a fiery dwell present and a 2022 self-titled EP. At this time, they’re again with their first full-length album, Exit Technique. The band’s debut finds them taking an bold flip, leaning into shadowy sonics and cinematic narratives. The album is ready between two areas, with Aspect A going down in Galway whereas Aspect B sees the protagonist touring to London in the hunt for which means. The document’s existential themes and filmic character portraits in flip act as mirrors to the band’s personal expertise after relocating to London in 2019.

As vocalist/guitarist James McGregor explains, “We have been all the time positive we wished the album to be larger than the sum of its elements, so determined to create the world of a movie, entitled Exit Technique. We envisaged the document as a collection of snapshots, telling the story of a bunch of characters attempting to navigate by way of life.”

Accompanying the album’s launch, the band have additionally shared a music video for considered one of its highlights, “Misplaced within the Second,” premiering with Beneath the Radar.

“Misplaced within the Second” is a stressed put up punk-tinged effort, working in a lot the identical vein as bands like Disgrace or Fontaines D.C. But, The Clockworks additionally weave pop undercurrents amidst the shadows, with jangly guitars winding beneath McGregor’s fast vocal supply. The observe’s churning tide of instrumentation builds to a fever pitch in its latter half earlier than the strain explodes outwards in a fiery and fractured guitar solo. All alongside, McGregor provides a ranting and magnetic vocal efficiency, filled with anxious supply and nervy lyricism.

McGregor says of “Misplaced within the Second,” “This observe began off on a piano. I used to be taking part in round with the chords and it turned a tune that wrote itself fairly shortly, as soon as the faucet was operating. That preliminary writing section was primarily what turned the acoustic recording at Abbey Street. We labored on it as a band for some time and shortly put meat on the bones. The tune is about rather a lot, it’s pretty dense lyrically, and I wished the chorus to be malleable sufficient to carry collectively the totally different concepts inside the verses.”

Take a look at the tune and video beneath. Exit Technique is out in every single place now.