Wild Beasts never disappoint when it comes to their music video. “Wanderlust” was a beautiful place to start unveiling their new music on this years Present Tense, and the slower swelling “Palace” is albeit a simpler video in comparison, but equally as well produced.
Shot by Alex Turvey, the video highlights the band performing a studio with a few tricks up their sleeve as well. Lead vocalist Tom Fleming had the following to say about the concept of the video:
The idea was to match the feel of a cheap game show with the content of a rather cruel psychological experiment. The content was unknown to us before the shoot; we were kept in a closed room until we were filmed, one by one, in a single take. What you see is us being introduced to the content for the first time and our genuine reactions to the objects and people involved. We wanted to make something that felt like an event and a sort of project, rather than what passes for a traditional music video.
Watch below.