Just a couple of weeks ago, Mr. Alec Bowman_Clarke contributed a sublime video to our "stay safe sessions" project. In the meantime, Alec released a superb EP called "A Place Like Home".

"Dearly Departed" comes along with a warm guitar tone, a fantastic sound, and the most beautiful harmonies sung by Josienne Clarke. Alec about "Deleted Scenes":

""Deleted Scenes', the first single from my new EP, "A Place Like Home', was the first song I wrote after my last album, "I Used To Be Sad & Then I Forgot'.

"Deleted Scenes' is about the search for meaning & a place in this lying, decaying late-stage capitalist nightmare of a reality we are fortunate enough to inhabit.

"Deleted Scenes' is a big country banger with a singalong chorus & inspiring, uplifting verses, because I love music like that. I just wanted to do what Ruston Kelly does, and I can't because I don't sound like him, but I can try, eh? I kid myself that the cloyingly knowing self-referentiality of the lyrics is doing a Father John Misty, a trope I've further milked dry by wearing a beard on the cover of the record. Every time I find myself doing things like that, I throw them away, cut them off, right away but I'm susceptible and I hate myself for it! What else can you do?

The video is made of snippets of me being a twat that I got mainly from Josienne's iPhone. I dunno if it's endearing or just ridiculous. It made me laugh. I was trying to make a video which didn't make me look cool or interesting but instead showed the bits between takes where I wasn't trying, or the failed attempts to look cool where I'm trying too hard. Since that's sort of what the lyric is about, I thought it might suit the video. I had a play with terrible early PowerPoint style flying words to show the lyrics, which are important to me.

The overall message seems to be a humanist one - a belief in science, with an acceptance that not everything is known. Another tired trope but one that seems to me to be true, regardless of how tired it might be."