Scottish troubadour Paolo Nutini has unleashed the video for his new single ‘Iron Sky’, which is out in the UK on 1 September.
With the announcement of his first UK arena tour, his third album Caustic Love hitting platinum and receiving unequivocal critical acclaim, it seems 2014 is the year for Paolo.
The ‘Iron Sky’ video is an 8-minute epic by director Daniel Wolfe and features an extract from Charlie Chaplin’s celebrated speech from The Great Dictator, the 1940 anti-war parody.
Wolfe exposes his thought process behind the film - “I was sent the track with no explanation from Paolo. As a child I stared at the planet Jupiter and had a vivid hallucinatory experience. A feeling of abject terror. In bondage to an omnipotent machine. When I heard the Chaplin quote I remembered this clearly. So the video became a dystopian vision of the future as imagined by a child in the 80s."
Produced by Dani Castelar and Mr. Nutini himself, the track is a rousing, soulful symphony that exudes a raw emotion. ‘Iron Sky’ has been met with unprecedented, universal applause and has astonished critics and peers alike, with Adele tweeting ‘hands down one of the best things I’ve seen in my life’, after witnessing Paolo’s performance of the single at Abbey Road. BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe said of the track "This song will be around for decades. If you're a songwriter - this is the song you'll have wished you'd written".
Check out the video below and be sure to let us know what you think. We love it.