With their debut album The Shadow Of Heaven shaping up to be one of the most anticipated of the year, MONEY have unveiled the video to new single ‘Hold Me Forever’. This exquisitely beautiful work is the directorial debut of celebrated actor Cillian Murphy (‘Inception’, ’28 Days Later’, ‘The Wind That Shakes The Barley’, ‘Breakfast On Pluto’) and features dancers from the English National Ballet and filmed at locations including The Old Vic Theatre in London.

MONEY are Jamie Lee, Charlie Cocksedge, Billy Byron and Scott Beaman. Having formed in Manchester amidst a prolific underground milieu, they soon came to embody the passion, creativity and optimism of a new generation of artists and musicians who found themselves presented with what singer/frontman Jamie describes as ‘an extraordinary, poetic city’. MONEY played shows in esoteric venues such as Salford’s Sacred Trinity Church and ‘the Bunker’, a former factory near Strangeways Prison and home to the cult independent label SWAYS, who released the band’s debut 7” single, ‘Who’s Going to Love You Now’ / ‘Goodnight London’ to wide acclaim. Having been tracked down by Simon Raymonde, the band subsequently signed to Bella Union, headlining the label’s Christmas party at the Union Chapel before taking to the studio to record ‘The Shadow of Heaven’.

The album consists of ten songs that range from stripped-back piano ballads such as ‘Goodnight London’ and ‘Black’ to the more epic ‘Hold Me Forever’ and ‘Bluebell Fields’. Rooted in universal themes of the spirit, love and loss, the album also addresses man’s condition in the modern world. It’s an album full of yearning and soul-searching, a voyage of (non-) discovery that only ends up finding itself and the sheer, aching beauty of questions asked in full knowledge of their own answerlessness. It’s metaphysics for the modern age, which might not be quite as spiritually bankrupt and bereft of meaning as we once believed.

Upcoming MONEY tour dates

Friday 12 July – MANCHESTER – Festival Square & Pavilion Theatre [Manchester International Festival]

Saturday 13 July – MANCHESTER – Festival Square & Pavilion Theatre [Manchester International Festival]

Friday 19 July – SHEFFIELD – Tramlines

Sunday 21 July – SOUTHWOLD – Latitude Festival

 Thursday 15 August – GLANUSK – Green Man Festival

Friday 30 August – DORSET – End Of The Road Festival