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KKH: I’ll tell you what, it's quite a weird project because I wrote them synonymously.
I wanted to write a song that

worked as a music video and a
music video that kind of flowed
with the song. So I wrote them in

tandem. The song came about, my
songs always start with me on the
couch, tinkling away on the guitar,

and somehow that popped into my
mind, and I thought, you know
what, that feels quite Western. You

know, I want to lean into that and
do something a little bit like a

spaghetti Western. I do like
Westerns. I think they're a lot of
fun. It's a great genre. And I
thought, yeah, that might be

interesting. What would happen if
maybe, you know, we get a

trumpet player to put some mariachi licks in that? It was just kind of a step away
from what I usually do, but I like to go with the flow with these ideas. They're a bit
mad sometimes, but it's fun, you know, to build on something new and I like to
conceptualise new ideas and find ways to sort of make old music new, whilst paying

homage to that music and respecting it. I thought that would be kind of interesting
to have, like Delta Blues that kind of leans into spaghetti Western film music and

cinematic kind of feeling music. That might be kind of interesting and so I asked my
good friend Ian, who is a very fantastic cellist, if he could play a cello track, or in fact
he did multiple cello tracks, and I thought that gives it a very cinematic edge. It's like

almost like a film score now, whilst kind of keeping the flow of a song instead of like
going all the way into it, being a film score. So I think it ended up kind of as something
that worked in both sides of that coin. Like it works as a score and the music video

also works as a film, and likewise, it works as a song, and the film, which is a music
video, works as a music video. So yeah, that's how that came about as like, a big idea
of two things, a song and a film.

BiTS: The preparation for the making of the film must have been quite lengthy. I was
struck by the pictures of making the face masks for you.

KKH: It was. Yeah, that was really claustrophobic [laughs]. I'm glad I experienced it.

It's given me a whole new appreciation for what actors go through when they have
their bodies cast and their face cast. It's quite scary, and you do have to like kind of
meditate through it and think, okay, this thing's coming off. You can breathe, but it's

incredibly claustrophobic. You're completely encapsulated by these layers and layers
of rubbery stuff and bandage and whatnot. But yeah, that was a really interesting