Paul Vickers And The Leg will shortly release their fifth album Winter At Butterfly Lake. It will be released on June 27 by PX4M.
God Is In The TV is proud to premiere the video for ‘Positions;’ a super quirky, beautiful, strange and slightly unsettling video, described by Paul as a Table Top Alfred Hitchcock film.
Speaking about the forthcoming album, Vickers explains: ‘Heartbreak is the best state to be in to write love songs. Due to incidents in my personal life, I found I had a large bundle of memories that I was pouring into a new set of songs. It didn’t take us long to work out that we appeared to be writing a heartbreak suite. This is the first time as a lyricist I have left my heart and soul so bare. With the songs co-written with Dan Mutch, and Pete Harvey flexing his muscles as an arranger, ‘Winter at Butterfly Lake is a record unlike any that Paul Vickers and the Leg has produced so far.’
Reflecting on the inspirations behind the album, he adds: ‘When I was on holiday in Tuscany some years ago we visited the square that inspired Puccini to write ‘Nessun Dorma’ for the final act of his opera, Turandot. It was easy to see how such a wonderful piece of music could be created in such a place. It’s an acoustically spectacular circle of houses with washing lines hung from the windows in a higgledy-piggledy manner. It was late at night when I visited the former roman amphitheatre there, and I thought I saw the ghost of Frank Sinatra lighting a cigarette by street lamp, perhaps lost in some wee small hours heartbreak. When I looked again it was just a trick of the light. It was in fact a local vagabond.
