Dancing and kissing in the new music video for Daniel Avery’s ‘Hazel and Gold’

Daniel Avery fans have just been gifted a stunning visual accompaniment to ‘Hazel and Gold’ taken from his album, ‘Together in Static’, which came out in June.

‘Together in Static’ was created for the covid-safe Hackney Church shows that happened in May, where the video was filmed and where the audience can be heard in the filmed version of ‘Hazel and Gold’.

An instrumental track with bell-synths, ‘Hazel and Gold’ is a relatively slow-moving rave tune, and you can see audience members slowing down, in time with the beat.

The video has a grainy VHS quality, an artefact that helps fill the void of actual clubbing. Its director Tom Andrew has also produced visuals for Metronomy, and Bonobo x Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.

Audience members are captured in carefree states; kissing, dancing. Shots are then seamlessly woven together using infrared edits that make each face unintelligible – instead showing the audience as one single moving entity; the viewer watching rave culture like a phenomenon from a bygone era, or another world.

Watch the video above or stream ‘Together in Static’ here.

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