Hotel Lux create an unsettling vision in the bleak video for ‘The Last Hangman’

Like fellow South Londoners Shame, Hotel Lux dwell in the murkier side of life, spinning tales of humanity’s bleaker elements.

On current single ‘The Last Hangman’, the quintet cast their focus to the tale of Albert Pierrepoint - the Northern executioner responsible for tying the rope on more than 400 people in the early 1900s.

Now they’ve given anxiety-ridden track a visual clip too and - surprise surprise - it’s a pretty bleak affair!

Featuring singer Lewis Duffin railing in the middle of a circle of tied-up captives with their faces covered, it’s a macabre image befitting of the less-than-pleasant subject matter.

“We wanted the video, like the song, to cast a prying eye upon Pierrepoint’s world, to peer into the dubious morality of the man,” says Lewis of the clip. Safe to say, they succeeded.

Watch the video for ‘The Last Hangman’ below - but maybe not just before bedtime, yeah?