PAUL MCLANEY Releases New Music Video ‘My Bravest Face’ From His Album ‘The Daylight Moon’ With 13th Floor Exclusive August 8th, 2025 6am.

As with the album, the video has been solely created by Paul and was inspired by the imagery of W.B. Yeats’ monumental poem ‘The Second Coming’ and Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘A Descent into the Maelström’.

 

 

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR ‘MY BRAVEST FACE’ HERE

The song is from the newly released album ‘THE DAYLIGHT MOON’ reviewed by Robin Kearns:

“This album, in all its gentleness, frank revelation of self and subtle exhortation to higher callings is balm in this troubled world and often shouty ways of engaging. Allow these secular chants to take up residence within. They will share a rare tranquility. In a word…sublime.”

PURCHASE / LISTEN TO ‘THE DAYLIGHT MOON’ HERE 

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR ‘WE OWNED THE WORLD’ HERE

“For those of you who have been generous enough to give my creative endeavours your valuable attention you will have noticed that poetry has been my primary means of expression recently. When I completed the final Gramsci album last year I had a very real thought that the song writing phase of my life had come to its natural conclusion.

In many ways the world is a very different place to the one I was born into and from where I started my artistic journey. As an artist you never want to repeat yourself but you do want to find new ways to say the same things, and say them better. Poetry has afforded me a means of expression that allows me to explore more aspects of this shared existence. I write the poems with the reader in mind; my friends and all of the unmade friends I want to connect with.

I was quite content with this shift in creative focus and proud of the music I had made over the years. I certainly wasn’t intending to write any more songs. But then… On the evening of July 2nd I picked up my trusty K Yairi acoustic which has been my travelling companion for over 35 years and started strumming through chord changes as a sort of experiment in pushing harmony around.

I’ve always been a fan of the unusual progressions you would hear in classic songwriting from the 1940’s and 50’s and the psychedelic, Lewis Carrol like mood of the early Syd-era Pink Floyd. I found myself humming melodies to make the chords work and those melodies soon morphed into words. I imagined I was tuning into a radio broadcast from a distant part of myself.

Memories and emotions started to broadcast and I soon realised my subconscious had things it wanted to express. By the time I put the guitar down at 2am the songs of this album had all arrived. I’ve never had a musical download like that in my life. It was overwhelming. I spent the next few days tracking them all with a strict set of parameters, a guitar, a piano, a synth and vocals.

I am a long time fan of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska album and its raw, unpolished truth. I looked to that album as my musical North Star. These are deeply personal songs about who I am, and where I am in my life. I wanted them to be as close to their moment of creation as possible and to be an honest representation of my musicality.

For me this whole collection of music is a one long mood and I wanted to punctuate the lyricism with ambient interludes that reinforce the sense of reverie and give the songs space to breathe. I didn’t intend to make this album. It came looking for me. Nothing is fixed. There are ugly bits and beautiful bits, as there should be; a human made it.”

Paul McLaney

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