Mumford & Sons don’t do anything halfway and their new video for “Lover Of The Light” is proof that the band put just as much work into the concept of their videos as they do their epic brand of folk music.
The video was shot around the Pembrokeshire countryside in Wiles and marks the directorial debut of Golden Globe winning actor Idris Elba who also stars in the video. “We are, quite obviously, huge fans of Idris Elba’s acting work, as pretty much anyone can agree he’s the most badass British actor since Richard Briars. So we trusted him as the director for our latest video,” the band explained in a statement.
They went on to add, “We’ve been fortunate to work with some great directors in the past, but we’ve always been uncomfortable with the process of making music videos. We’ve never really enjoyed being in them, unless they involve live performance. Talking to Idris and [scriptwriter] Dan [Cadan] about making a video that we’re not in made it a lot more fun to think about. They went off and wrote the treatment after our ale-infused conversation in a pub in London, and what they directed, we are proud to present as: Lover of the Light.”
It’s true this is more of a short film than a video and tells the story of one man’s own inner and outer adventures in the gorgeous countryside. We don’t want to say much more than that but we will say that there are also some pretty amazing animals in this clip… if you’re into that sort of thing.
