The Boxer Rebellion new single, new video & free Joy Formidable remix

Alt-rock quartet The Boxer Rebellion announce the release of their second single 'The Runner,' taken from this year's Ethan Johns-produced epic The Cold Still.

The single is packaged with a stunning music video directed by DarkFibre (Ishbel Whittaker and Marc Hawker), and an electro-rock remix by hotly-tipped Welsh trio The Joy Formidable.

'We took the cornerstone idea of honesty and its fragility from the lyrics, and created a narrative that would be both completely surprising and utterly compelling,' says co-director Ishbel Whittaker. 'We wanted to make something that was playful and naughty, but also profound, raw and honest. We compressed 24 hours of a drunken rollercoaster of highs and lows, passion and heartache, into 4 minutes.

We explore a frenzied relationship, and presented the viewer with something that might be seen at first glance as controversial or sensational, but break through this.... break through the fashionista styling, photo-shoot imagery, the beauty, the sexuality, the crazy night out... and try and find an intimate humanity that is shockingly real. We cast Hannah May and Andrea Chovanova to star. The fact that it's two girls shouldn't be an issue. We say "why not?" love is love..."



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