Irish songwriter Aoife Nessa Frances has signed with Partisan Records home of Fontaines D.C. and Just Mustard and international acts such as Cigarettes after Sex and Idles. Aoife Nessa Frances has shared her first new  solo material in two years ‘Emptiness Follows’ having collaborated with Jack Name on the excellent ‘Watching The Willows’ Burn last year.

This latest pastoral single will appeal to fans of The Weather Station and Aldus Harding “‘Emptiness Follows’ is about the intimacy and deep emotional connection of friendship,” explains Frances.

“The song captures these moments – the water as the weight of the emotional connection we share, the small details we remember ‘the shape sits beneath your earlobe’. The movement and colour of the music, the harp constantly flowing throughout, are emphasising a profound importance in acknowledging an eternal kind of love. I wanted my voice to be close and up front and vulnerable like Serge Ginsberg’s ‘ Histoire de Melody Nelson’’.

The accompanying video shot in Kinsale, was directed by film-maker Zoe Greenway “The video for ‘Emptiness Follows’ emulates an impressionistic vision of memories. The juxtaposition of light and dark imagery replicates a feeling of fragmented remembrances. The evocative visual textures explore the distorted yet halcyon nature of memory.”

Aoife Nessa Frances  is currently on tour in America supporting Alex Cameron and will support Destroyer in Europe this Autumn but Irish fans will be able to see her perform live at next month’s Beyond The Pale festival in Wicklow. Frances will then return to Ireland for a series of show this November, details below.

‘Emptiness Follows’ and B-side ‘Emptiness Follows (Dreams of Our Love)’ are available to stream now and will be physically available from June 17th. Pre-order here

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