WHITE LIES share new music video for their latest single Take It Out On Me.

White Lies have released new clip for the lead track Take It Out On Me to be taken from their upcoming fourth studio album, Friends.

The band tracked down David Pablos, an award winning Mexican film director, via Facebook after watching his latest movie The Chosen Ones, with an aim to work together on this project.

Take It Out On Me is the director’s debut music video. More from the man himself.

I had wanted to make a music video for quite a long time – says David Pablos. I told everyone I knew in Mexico, how much I was looking for this opportunity, but nothing happened… And suddenly, out of nowhere, I got a message from White Lies, inviting me to collaborate with them! How exciting this was! The music video for “Take It Out On Me” is a reinterpretation of traditional stories of saints, in modern day Tijuana, mixed with elements from the film “Theorem” by Pier Paolo Pasolini. A little bit of dark humour and that’s the final result!

The debut single Take It Out On Me will be out on August 26th. The song started as an experiment in which Charles Cave was trying to write a chorus using just numbers.

Right up until we recorded the song it was called 89-1-3 – he says. It was inspired by a lunatic on Instagram who kept commenting on a friend’s photos in pseudo Biblical verse. From his profile I discovered he lived in a remote cabin with a rough-looking dog. He posted weird videos in which he quoted random numbers. As a challenge, I turned them in to a song. The only problem was that it went so well everyone said it should be the first single, so I relented and gave the chorus real lyrics.

The album Friends is due for release on October 7th via BMG.

The band have also announced an extensive UK and European tour which stretches from late September through to the start of December. See below for all the details.

November

22 – London, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire

24 – Nottingham, Rock City

25 – Manchester, Albert Hall

26 – Liverpool, Arts Club

27 – Glasgow, O2 ABC

29 – Birmingham, O2 Institute

30 – Leeds, Stylus

December

01 – Bristol, O2 Academy

Watch the video!