pencil have share a brand new single “The Giant”, which is out now on Moshi Moshi Records. This single marks the relaunch of Moshi Moshi Singles Club.

The video for the song was directed by Luke Ainger and he shared this about it: “After first hearing “The Giant” I was really interested by the idea of making something that had the tone of an old children’s fable. Something which seemed nostalgic, magical, whilst maintaining the slight sinister feeling that often accompanies classic children’s tales. My day job is in film development/processing, so I was keen to see how we could push this tone through the film’s texture. Rik Burnel and I choose to shoot on Double-X (one of the oldest film stock still in use) and pushed it by 2 stops during development, creating this unusual and dreamlike sentimentality.”

The band shares this about it: “‘The Giant’ is a song about the pain of growth, growing up, growing apart, growing old. It started life with Coco’s violin. The whirlpool arpeggio immediately caught our ears and we started figuring out a chord sequence for the verse together. The idea sat as a voice memo for a few days before one rare morning, when all the lyrics were written in one sitting. We then arranged the song as a band before recording it live with Polly Mackey aka Artschool Girlfriend at Goldsmiths University.”