Storm & Stone Run

Blue Mountains based Storm & Stone are back with their intriguing new single 'Run'.  The trio - made up of sisters August, Auriel and their brother Hallelujah - continue to produce exciting new music full of twists and turns.

The bouncy feel of 'Run' carries with it an undercurrent of something-sinister-lurking-beneath. It is a tale of romance gone wrong with its inspirations drawn from one of the oldest traditions in popular music.

August explains: "Auriel had started showing me murder ballads, and some of Dolly Parton's darker stories". The rhythmic feel further adds to the deep sense of tension within the song. "When we were writing and working on it, I really wanted us to have the energy of a train leaving a station. A build-up of excitement and movement forward as the song came to its climax to bring the story even more to life."

The single is the first song sisters Auriel and August wrote together. "I think for me, when we were writing this song with August, I really wanted to express how it felt to be on the other side of a love song, in the desperate dark place the song talks to," Auriel explains. Of the songs ebullient feel, she continues: "I also wanted something with a beat that had a lot of movement, to sort of follow the emotional movement the song talks about."

Produced by Matt 'Xiro' Fioravanti, 'Run' was recorded in A# Recording Studio's and Kiln Studios in Sydney. It features the three prodigious siblings along with local musicians Luke Herbert (drums), Dominic Cabusi (bass), Nikos Harpoulos-Smallman (keys) as well as Rosie Jackson, Lucia Neville, James Audet and Liam Whelan on backing vocals.

Directed and produced by Thomas Crnkovic of Cranky Dog Productions, the video was shot in Heartly Vale Cemetery in the Blue Mountains, which delivered the moody tension and drama of the song. It explores themes of love spurned and the supernatural, spurred on by August's anger and grief of a relationship on the cusp of ruin. "The story is one of a woman experiencing her partner being drawn to another woman, but what ensues after that is left somewhat up in the air. What happened? What is going to happen? That ambiguity was enthralling," Crnkovic explains. He continues: "are we listening to someone's internal torment from trying to keep a grip on a relationship that's slipping away? Are we witnesses to the aftermath of a crime of passion? Both? I wanted to make a video that honours those stakes and that ambiguity. Maybe spirits can hear our darkest thoughts, maybe nothing can. Either way: Run."

As Pitchfork Music summed up "Bands like Storm & Stone are blurring the lines between the genres, creating new fans for both in the process. Great heart-felt lyrics, melodic harmonies and inspired vocals all around. Storm & Stone are a rare combination of great storytelling and great musicianship able to multi cross genres."  Don't walk to listen to Storm & Stone – Run!