Future of the Left - "The Hope That House Built"

Welsh band Future of the Left's second album Travels With Myself and Another has been a standout of 2009. The short, yet excellent, album rips through its running time with a punk-like intensity but surrounds itself in a more alternative/indie environ. A quickly paced album (except for the acoustic, tongue-in-cheek closer "Lapsed Catholics") full of jagged rhythms and surprisingly sensitive lyrics, Travels gives listeners a number of different impressions on it's style (which all point to "well done"). This video for the single "The Hope That House Built" is a march-like track set in the perfect setting for these lads: a bar. Fully of odd imagery and aptly casted locals (giving a nice impression of the attractiveness of folk of Wales) the song bounces along and is catchy as hell.