New German Cinema have shared the first single, “My Mistake”, off their upcoming debut album “Pain Will Polish Me” out March 27th via Felte.

TRACKLIST:
01. Sub Rosa
02. Swirling Pain
03. Being Dead
04. I Become Heavy
05. Hera’s Theme I
06. Eyes
07. Water Drops
08. Hera’s Theme II
09. My Mistake – Video
10. All That Heaven Allows
11. Pain Will Polish Me
12. Perfect Secret

The video for the song was directed by Luke Bather, he shared this about it: “Our initial starting point was, predictably, the New German Cinema movement. However, when we discussed the themes of the song in more depth, the video evolved into its own beast. Sex, death, repressed desire, and good old-fashioned Catholic Guilt all loom large in the video through a series of performance vignettes inspired by everything from the films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder through to the paintings of Francis Bacon and everything in between. Adding to this, we have the spectre of Carson haunting the video as a ghostly analogue broadcast interspersed with archival footage of Berlin in the 1970s; an inescapable reminder of the past and a nod to the original New German Cinema movement.”

Jessica Weiss shared this about it: “The video sets the emotional tone for the record, suspended between eroticism and nightmare. It draws on cropped mirror framing – a favourite device of Douglas Sirk used to explore themes of emotional and physical entrapment and characters’ inner psychological conflicts – moments of dissociation, and the television as a symbol of alienation, inspired by my perennial inspiration, RW Fassbinder.”