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AUX PREMIERE: Watch the new Yukon Blonde video, "Stairway"

by Nicole Villeneuve

Yukon Blonde‘s sophomore album Tiger Talk is set for release on March 20, and the band’s Brandon Scott (guitar/vocals) came into Toronto last month to star in the video for new single “Stairway.”

Directed by Joy Broadbent and filmed by Justin Broadbent in locations in Toronto’s Bloorcourt neighbourhood, the video took its cues from the song’s lyrics of being on the road and missing home.

“Brandon [is] in a dreamlike state, remembering and longing for all the wonderfully mundane things you do at home like cleaning or washing dishes,” the band said in a statement. “In the dream he finds these apparitions which seem to be memories of people and places he misses from home, from which he feels slightly detached from being away so long, and yet he can always return and connect with them in the end.”

Joy describes Brandon’s character as a “socially unaware, highly strung bachelor.” His domestic routine is burdened by the apparitions at first, but Broadbent helps him “remember to unwind and go with the flow.”

Watch the video for “Stairway” above.