No two ways about it: Let Me Be Your Light is the most instantly worship-inducing, haunting, evocative song I’ve heard this week. It’s taken from The Door Behind The Door, the new album from The Black Ryder (Australian duo Aimee Nash and Scott Von Ryper), and it’s pretty much too beautiful, too ethereal for me to summarise using just a series of clumsy letters, words, and grammatical symbols. Listen to the song, below, but above all watch the video, and allow yourself to be transported…

The film for The Black Ryder’s “Let Me Be Your Light” focuses on the theme of survival and genetic memory. One character travels across mountains of time to pull another from a state of suspension, beautiful and addictive ~ yet ultimately destructive. The black vultures tell us that such state of abstraction foreshadows a nearby end of cycle. The birds point to the vitality and chaos created by the gene of survival encoded into the natural world. Our characters have suppressed it and instead carry it around, like dead weight against vast landscapes of time.Juan Azulay, video director

The Door Behind The Door is out on April 20th in the UK, and was released on February 24th in the US.