Behind The Scenes: Towers - Could Have

The entire project of Towers is something which vocalist/guitarist Mark openly reveals is rooted in his mental wellbeing: “I went through a tough time last year with personal and mental issues. Music was the only thing that kept me going through it. I started writing these songs during that time, and once I recorded them I had made a lot of progress with myself. It was basically therapy for me!” In fact, all of Towers’ members, who comprise Guitarist Dan, Bassist Matt and Drummer Jamie, share this motivation, as Mark explains “We do it for the love for music, we love playing music, writing music, and we are all best friends. That’s really it! It’s that simple. If we don’t write music we go crazy. Trust me.” The tracks certainly are: anthemic, brimming with emotion, infectious harmonies and an overriding sense of positivity. Easily drawing comparisons to the likes of Deaf Havana, 30 Seconds To Mars and Biffy Clyro, the band cite influences ranging from Jimmy Eat World to Sigur Ros. As they gear up to release the EP on September 30th, the band take us behind the scenes of their new video single ‘Could Have’….

“We picked Could Have as our sophomore single, because bearing in mind the season, it’s the next most ‘summer sounding’ track after our debut Titan. Additionally, it sits nicely in our releases, showing our versatility, as the next track we have planned is a very different take on what we do... and people aren’t ready for that yet!

Wanting to contrast with the black and white video of Titan, we wanted a vibrant colourful video for this track. As mentioned with it being a summery track, outside was always the plan. We had a lot of ideas but it’s frustratingly very hard to get videos sorted on locations with permissions etc and so the result is the easiest way we could do it with the time we had to do it. We didn’t have any locations until 2 days before we were set to film, as the last locations fell through last minute. The final product saw us shoot half in Burley in the New Forest and half at a person’s garden in Lyndhurst… a very kind person who was nice enough to let us make a load of noise on his land.

Our director was Joe Lewis, who you can find at joelewisfilms.co.uk. He had just started out and is a very professional, great dude. A lot of people seem really into the track which is great and we are really happy with it. Who doesn’t like Slo-mo??”

Towers release their self-titled debut EP digitally on 30/09/16. Pre-order now: