Watch: Diagrams – Night All Night

London’s Diagrams have just released the video for ‘Night All Night’, taken from their self-titled debut EP which is set for release on July 11 via Full Time Hobby.

With the softly spoken wordy vocals, and lush but restrained instrumentation of ‘Night All Night’, Diagrams immediately establish themselves as purveyors of easy-to-listen-to but intelligent pop music. Like the band name suggests, there is an element of both the mathematical, and the creative to their sound, like a beautiful technical drawing, or a really awesome pie chart. It’s inoffensive, but certainly not bland – the denouement at the end is especially arresting – the multiple layers of sound and vocal harmonies combining, unfurling like a peacock’s tail and revealing an intricate and colourful, quietly psychedelic thing.

The theme of psychedelia is continued in the mysterious video – like the comfortable pairing of acoustic and electric sounds in the track, the video combines verdant natural woodland with glitter-faced, spaceship, kaleidoscope trippiness. Like the music itself, the video is beautifully executed, with thoughtful, slow moving photography, but not without an undercurrent of melancholy, and perhaps, danger.

Video and song alike give the impression of a self-assured band with an unpretentious skill for interesting and emotive composition. The song is not revolutionary, but does feel special, and certainly, like only the first chapter in what is potentially a very interesting book.