Fanning Dempsey National Park Drop Electrifying New Single 'The Deluge'

It's time to end the month with Australia’s hottest new rock duo, Fanning Dempsey National Park, who have just dropped the music video for the title track of their upcoming album, The Deluge.

A song that highlights both of the singers’ bands’ melodic sensibilities (Powderfinger and Something For Kate) with a little dash of Kraftwerk, The Deluge is just the right balance of quirky, 80s-inspired electronic elements and rock and roll.

For the second taste of their debut album, Fanning Dempsey National Park have also unveiled the music video directed by Alex Badham, which takes place at Berlin subway stations.

Bernard Fanning and Patrick Dempsey said of the new track, “Delving deeper into this new project with the title track single The Deluge, we can continue to share the fun we’ve been having creating this album. If we’re having fun now, wait until you hear the rest of the record, and we bring it live onstage with a brand-new band for the tour in October!”

Badham added, “I've spent a lot of my life staring at the fantastic designs in Berlin's subway stations and have been wanting to incorporate them into something trippy and strange for quite some time.

“Putting these designs into party mode for The Deluge seemed like a fun thing to do, so I whipped up an early version of this idea and sent it over. Paul and Bernard's response was ‘This is cool, we should come to Berlin and be in it’.

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“So, they hopped on a flight, and we had one of the most low-stress shoots of all time. Wandering around subway stations and knocking off with some beer and currywurst. 267 hours of animation work later, and here we are!”

You can watch the music video below.

In addition to dropping The Deluge today, Fanning Dempsey National Park have added an extra Brisbane show to their rapidly selling national tour and announced they’ll be joined by special guest Merpire. The new Brisbane gig will take place at The Tivoli on Saturday, 9 November.

The Deluge (the album) will be released via Dew Process/UMA on Friday, 2 August. You can pre-order/pre-save the album here and check out all the tour dates and ticketing details below.