Fortitude Valley release new music video for ‘Cassini’

FORTITUDE VALLEY have released a new music video!

The new music video, for the track Cassini, is taken from the Durham-based indie punks’ upcoming self-titled debut album, which is scheduled to be released in September this year, via Fika Recordings. More information about the upcoming debut album will be unveiled soon.

The new song intends to recall the eponymous satellite’s lonely final days and fiery self-sacrifice. NASA’s Cassini–Huygens was launched on October 15, 1997. It took seven years to get to Saturn, which it began orbiting in 2004, and where it remained until its end in 2017. Staying in orbit meant that it risked one day colliding one of Saturn’s moons, namely Titan and Enceladus (which researchers believe have the potential to harbour life), and contaminating them with Earth microbes.

Cassini Project Scientist, Linder Spilker, described the end of Cassini’s mission as “like losing a friend”, something that vocalist and songwriter Laura Kovic can clearly empathise with, as she elaborates. “In September 2017, National Geographic published the article How NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Met Its Fiery End. I thought it was so heart-breaking that this spacecraft that NASA had been following for almost 20 years had to be destroyed. In the song, I’ve anthropomorphised the spacecraft and personalised the story a bit, so it’s just between me and Cassini. Cassini is venturing out on a long, lonely journey that will inevitably end in its destruction just so I can see what it’s ‘like out there’. And even though I know how it’s going to end, it doesn’t make it any easier to say goodbye.”

Watch the official music video for Cassini here: 

Fortitude Valley is set for release on September 3rd via Fika Recordings. Pre-orders will be available soon.

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