VIDEO PREMIERE: Underground Lovers - Unbearable

Revered Melburnian electro/shoegaze luminaries Underground Lovers have been a bit quiet since their 2013 album Weekend — at the time, their first new LP in 14 years — but they're set to reassert themselves with another new full-length in the near future.

Although details regarding that release are still scant, we at The Music have been supremely bloody lucky to have been asked to premiere the visually lush new video for the band's fresh track, Unbearable. Will it be on the album? Maybe. Probably. We don't actually know. What we do know is that, goddamn, this song is good.

True to the seminal band's well-regarded form, the track is a welcoming, warm and easy-going affair, occasionally straddling the kind of downtempo chill-city grooves that Pinback (RIP) used to wield in their early years. It's an immediately enticing prospect, easing listeners in with its casual soundscape, airy vocals and catchy "doo-doo-doo"s.

The clip itself juxtaposes project-specific footage with a collection of stock imagery — god, stock archives are awesome — and the sum total is a fittingly unobtrusive accompaniment, right up until rapid machine-gun fire pierces the relative serenity as hectic night-vision footage rounds out the journey. Man, we were not expecting that last bit.

Unbearable's video was directed and conceived by Vincent Giarrusso, with cinematography and editing by Sean T. Barnes.

Underground Lovers will be stepping out for a rare Christmas show later this month, hitting The Toff In Town with Emily Ulman on Thursday 22 December. It'll be a chance to spend some quality time with one of the country's most legendary alternative bands of the late 20th century.

For more information, see the band's Facebook page.