Watch: Cosmo Sheldrake – The Fly

We were first introduced to eccentric multi-instrumentalist, Cosmo Sheldrake, through his earthy-as-it-gets pigsty performance video for ‘Rich’. This time around young Cosmo takes a wander down the South Coast to Hastings to film visuals for latest drop, ‘The Fly’ with the crew of fishing vessel, RX89.

The end result is splendid but we can guarantee it was a technological and logistical pain in the backside for director, Ruben Woodin Dechamps. Attending to an array of Midi controllers, samplers and his trusty Mac – shielded from the foam by nothing more than a scrap of tarpaulin – Cosmo sets to work spitting those familiar scrambled, pitch-shifted lines from William Blake’s poem, as his fishermen friends haul in basket after basket of squirming cuttlefish.

Few music videos capture the essence of the song better than this wonderfully salty accompaniment to our favourite shanty of 2013.

Cosmo plays his last show in London until September at The Lexington on 25 June supporting The Melodic.