Part Picnic at Hanging Rock, part 80′s Korean ghost movie, the ‘Soporific’ video reunites the team behind 2009′s ‘Echo Stick Guitars’ video (Tooth and Nail) with the addition of music and documentary photographer Leah Robertson (see the photo on the single cover) behind the lens.

While continuing a trend of difficult song titles (‘Awkward Orchid Orchard’ anyone?) The Boat People will no-doubt further confuse the expectations of those who claimed that last year’s ‘Echo Stick Guitars’ heralded an electro turn-about for the band.

‘Soporific’ treads some very different terrain, sounding more like… well, you’re the music connoisseur but certainly “different from the last one” is a good start and makes the release of their third album Dear Darkly in June an intriguing prospect.

While the word soporific may not get as much usage as LMAO, ROFL or LOL in  the present day vernacular, it made it into the song at least in part due to songwriter Robin Waters’ childhood exposure to “Peter Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter.

To quote Beatrix: “It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is “soporific”. I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then I am not a rabbit. They certainly had a very soporific effect upon the Flopsy Bunnies! The Flopsy Bunnies simply stuffed lettuces. By degrees, one after another, they were overcome with slumber, and lay down in the mown grass.”

The track was recorded with Jonathon Burnside (Sleepy Jackson, Dappled Cities), John Castle (Washington) and Joe Hammond.

“Australian four piece The Boat People’s new single, ‘Soporific’, off their upcoming third album, Dearest Darkly, shows a whole lot of realized potential.” – thescene.com.au

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