VIDEO PREMIERE: The Hunting Birds – ‘Naive Eyes’

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The latest music video from Perth-based rockers The Hunting Birds is a beautiful and haunting experience.

Pop-tinged folk rock single Naive Eyes is a song about “paralyzing anxiety, the process of fighting those demons and escaping”, and its stunning music video, by Perth filmmaker Peter Cheng, captures that well.

"I started writing Naive Eyes when I was in high school. I'd been going through some traumatizing things for the first time, a rough break up, my parents splitting and I wasn't handling them very well," frontman Connor Minervini said.

"I was sixteen and a bit inexperienced, I was unsure of myself and that invited in some demons that I wasn't prepared for. I felt paralyzed by the anxiety I was feeling, and this song is kind of those demons taunting me while I fight to escape."

Of the video, he said: "Throughout the time of myself that I wrote this song and was dealing with all the loss and change around me, I felt like I couldn't move. We tried to follow that idea of fear and paralysis in the music video. It's a montage of people trapped in still images, where they're struggling to move."