VIDEO PREMIERE: Pridelands - Coalesce

Melbourne hardcore four-piece Pridelands are readying themselves to follow up last year's excellent debut EP Natives, with the first taste of new goods coming in the form of fresh single and video Coalesce, proudly premiering on The Music today.

The track — available from today via Pridelands' Bandcamp page — unquestionably marks a point of maturation for the heavy-hitting quartet, the clip fusing slick visuals with a more refined degree of audio production than fans of the band's rough-hewn oeuvre are probably used to, but without losing the sense of authenticity and humanity that served Pridelands so well on their debut.

Coalesce's video juxtaposes footage of the band thrashing it out in industrial-looking settings(plus some epic sweeping mountain-views shots during the song's vocal power-melodies) with a sense of delicacy and vulnerability through repeated shots of nude women in locations from a bedroom to the forest (it's all very tastefully done, though may err on the NSFW side for more conservative employers, so be warned) as well as a mysterious, heavily clad hooded figure making their way through the grime and muck of a city.

The person responsible for all this vivid, beautifully shot imagery is director, cinematographer and editor Kieran Ellis-Jones, working with cast members Joanna Angelidis, Sienna Barrett and Shayana Gaillard. Coalesce was produced, mixed and mastered by Lance Prenc and Jamie Marinos.

Pridelands will be launching their new single at home this week when they support Hellions at the Evelyn on Friday 29 July. They'll be following up that performance with another pseudo-launch at the second annual Mini-Fest at the Towradgi Surf Club on Sunday 28 August alongside Justice For The Damned, Staunch, Dregg and more.

For more information, see Pridelands' Facebook page.

To grab Coalesce for yourself so you can listen to your heart's content, head over Bandcamp way.