VIDEO PREMIERE: Magnetic Heads - 'What You See Is What You Get'

Sydney indie outfit Magnetic Heads have shared a brand new video - to coincide with their debut album Moral Outrage hitting shelves today - premiering exclusively with The Music.

The single, What You See Is What You Get, is a shimmering new wave tune that will delight fans of New Order or Echo & The Bunnymen - and the video takes things right back to where the genre kicked off throughout the streets of London.

Featuring freeskater Valderama as the main subject of the video, director Andrew Lancaster said the mission of the clip was to convey as much authenticity as possible

"This is the third in a trilogy of clips for the Magnetic Heads' new album," he explained. 

"Jono (lead singer Jonathan Desmond Miller) and I wanted a mesmeric feel, and I wanted to continue the idea of portraits using real people. The track, to me, feels like a progressive journey. It instantly reminded me of train tracks and tunnels.

"When I bumped into Valderrama in Victoria Park, London, I felt his character and unique freeline skating had just the right feel to give the track momentum. We followed him in one of those Dutch courier bikes with our DOP sitting in the wooden crate at the front, which was quite fun. I chose the locations that give us that vanishing point and take us on a journey into that mesmeric world."

Miller stated that the vast nature of the video was perfectly representative of the tune, adding, "The song is a note to self to remember that the huge soupy mess of our past actions are not worth obsessing over and regretting. That what matters is our next choice."

Miller continued, "There’s a brutally elegant philosophy that suggests reality is a figment of our perception; that what you see is what you get. I’m interested in the slippery phenomena of agency and identity – the gap between what we think about ourselves, what we do, what other people perceive and how they interpret those perceptions."

Check out the clip above and click the links below for more from Magnetic Heads.