Leif Vollebekk releases his lovelorn and tender new album New Ways

Leif Vollebekk has just released his much anticipated new record New Ways, accompanied by the cinematic and joyful new video for single ‘Blood Brother’.

Filmed in the early morning London light atop a double-decker bus, ‘Blood Brother’ is a sentiment to freedom and connection, and is the heart of the recently-released and lauded new album New Ways.

Hand-cuffed to a seat on a vacant double-decker bus in London, Vollebekk dances his way to freedom in the restless video – but not without passing along his burden to the bus’ sole other passenger, himself. The Thin Lizzy-inspired video can be watched below. The video was directed by UK-based Joe Connor who has made videos for Coldplay, Sam Smith, Paul Weller, Mumford & Sons, Kylie Minogue and more.

Video director Joe Connor elaborates on the video’s concept, stating that “Leif is an artist whose music takes me to a dreamlike space. I wanted to create a video that found Leif in the middle of a story, where he has come from and where he is going is unknown but the beauty in this video is that here we find an artist, handcuffed and adrift in a city in the early hours of the morning. This beautiful video presents London in the most spectacular way and sets Leif as a quiet voice amongst the rolling city.”

You can catch the new video for ‘Blood Brother’ below

“There was a period of a few months where I listened to nothing but Thin Lizzy’s Jailbreak. I couldn’t get enough of that rock n roll shuffle. And so when I wrote this piano ballad, I guess I just kept hearing these polyrhythms over it. I played it to Olivier [Fairfield, drummer] and it ended up being this whole other thing. Not a ballad at all,” Leif says. “Back in high school, I think the first song I ever played with a band was ‘Last Nite’ by The Strokes. That was in a half-empty high school cafeteria in Ottawa. But it felt like such a release. You don’t forget that feeling. I think that snuck in there on this song.”