Irish singer-songwriter Brigid Mae Power is captured heading coastwards on an escapist’s sojourn, as she weighs the pros and cons of life during Zoë Greenway and Daniela Balaur’s Super 8mm-shot video for ‘Counting Down’. The track, taken from her forthcoming album, Dream from the Deep Well (out via Fire Records on June 30), is a whimsical, folkish flute-led reverie, beguiling like peak Cowboy Junkies fronted by Sandy Denny, Power waxing on existential conundrums in her mesmeric tone.

At one stage, Power seems to second-guess her role as an artist, before rediscovering her resolve, singing: ‘All I can do is play music by ear… So I'll keep going on, and I’ll feel better after a song,’ giving free expression to the mind-state of a musician compelled to create.  

Catch Brigid Mae Power on her UK tour this September.

Brigid Mae Power’s Dream from the Deep Well will be reviewed in the July issue of Songlines. Never miss an issue – subscribe today