Exclusive: Watch Mandolin Orange’s Quietly Devastating “Golden Embers” Video
The track is off the band's forthcoming album Tides of a Teardrop
Photo by Kendall Bailey
Bluegrass upstarts Mandolin Orange have shared the video for “Golden Embers,” premiering exclusively here at Paste. “Golden Embers” is the second track off the band’s forthcoming album Tides of a Teardrop, out Feb. 1, 2019, through Yep Roc.
Following lead single “Time We Made Time,” album opener “Golden Embers” catalogs the heartbreak and healing that singer-songwriter Andrew Marlin and his father endured following the death of Marlin’s mother. The wistful instrumentation sets the bleak, lonely stage for Marlin’s plainspoken odes to his mother. “Loss has no end / it binds to our connection / we don’t speak of it / we don’t even try,” he sings. The song is Marlin’s plea to his father to crack—to show him that he, too, is feeling the weight. “You’ve got burden in you / and you can help me, and in our time together / her memory will ever shine like golden embers.”
The video, directed by Josh Sliffe, tracks Marlin and co-vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Emily Frantz in the present day as Marlin looks over his younger self, stuck in the throes of grief and unable to reach out. Empty church pews and abandoned junkyard jalopies give the video an air of apocalypse, even if it’s only an internal one.
“We knew the folks at Remedy would make a gorgeous video, and it was fitting that they felt a personal draw to ‘Golden Embers,’” Frantz tells Paste. “They translated all the heavy emotion of the song in a way that feels very true and genuine. I got a little teary when we saw the first edit!”
Mandolin Orange have a handful of December shows on the books, and will be touring in support of their new album throughout the spring. Alongside their new single/video today, the duo have announced a new batch of U.S./Euro tour dates set for April and May.
Watch the video for “Golden Embers” and check out the band’s 2016 Paste Studio session below, and find Mandolin Orange’s tour dates further down, with new shows in bold. You can preorder Tides of a Teardrop here.
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