Watch: Empty Pools Unveil ‘Slack Tide’ Video

There’s often so much going on in the music of Bristol band Empty Pools, it’s difficult to pierce through the busied hurrah and find a message within each song. They’re in there somewhere, though, even if it’s tempting to focus on the crazed atmosphere of their recordings.

‘Slack Tide’ turns out to be a pretty depressing song, especially when combined with a new video directed and animated by Francesca Adams. It highlights the mundanity of a 9-to-5 slog, but not in the conventional way. This guy has to put up with living in a house that spins, and working in a zero-gravity environment. His job doesn’t look much fun either. There’s no real respite. Maybe he should kick on and get a job on a farm or something.

Empty Pools’ ‘Saturn Reruns’ is out now.