The UK-based Chimehours, a dark folk/darkwave project by Beck Goldsmith and Jon Dix, have offered the second single/visualiser, "Run", from their forthcoming debut full-length, Underneath The Earth, due on 24 October through Cold Spring Records.

Chimehours on "Run": "'Run' was one of the last tracks we wrote for the album. By then, we knew we'd got a solid set of songs we were happy with, and with lots of light and shade and dynamic where we wanted it, so with 'Run' we just kind of let loose. Our friend Frank played some wild little flute motifs for us, and I backed this up with some recorder squeals, then imagined a kind of forest campfire scene with people dancing around in some kind of earthy, tribal stramash. Jon's horn sounds and deep thumpy beats really set the tone and gave it the momentum, and we came along for the ride!"

The album concept took shape after a candlelit reading of Max Porter's Lanny one Burns Night. Jon explains, "The themes and setting cemented our ideas and gave us a specific focus, and we imagined ourselves writing a soundtrack to the book, or to an imagined film of the book. From there, the songs came together at their own pace and distance".

Inspired by ethereal minimalism, retro cinema and folk narratives, Chimehours craft a sonic palette reflecting on the pressures of modern life and the desire for reconnection with the natural world. The idea of a lost child's connection with a Green Man-style character in the Lanny book also finds itself in the premiered single. Beck clarifies, "With Underneath The Earth, we wanted to capture this complicated relationship with nature and the sense of something calling to us from somewhere else - an 'otherness' that exists just outside of what we know and understand. Something old and eternal and familial, and at the same time unsettling".

Written and produced between Derbyshire, London and Margate during lockdown and beyond, the album incorporates drones, drums, gritty guitars merging with woodwind, strings and voice textures that resist clear linearity. "We started to get bigger and bolder in our approach, and it was fun and mysterious and compulsive to bring it all together (as though other forces were at work...)", shares the duo.

The result is a balanced blend of naturalism, tonal clarity, and experimental sonic tension. Underneath The Earth explores how the themes of life and existential suffering characterise every human being. "The album explores how the cycle of life and our place within nature is primal and relentless, and ultimately connects us back to the earth", says Beck. "There is darkness and beauty in that."

Chimehours is a collaborative effort of Beck Goldsmith and Jon Dix, who had already worked together on several indie folk releases in the past, teaming up right now to create a new musical project in which they could express their shared love for folk horror, ghost stories and supernatural. "We wanted to do something that musically spoke to those influences and allowed us to explore the themes they raise - nature, folklore, time, community, and a sense of the uncanny", recalls Beck. Link