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Music video for "The Sundown Song", the title track from Clogs' new EP, available now.

Video production by Rupert Shanks www.rupertshanks.com

Lyrics and Music by Padma Newsome
Padma Newsome - Baritone Ukulele, Strings, Vocals
Bass Guitar - John Grunden
The Mallacoota Community Choir - Leonie Daws, Pam Bobbin, Chris Craig, Sally Ann Watt, Yolande Oakley, Anna Kim, Sue Morrison, Gail Rands, Julie Picket-Heaps, Joycelyn Grunden, June Kinsella, Maz Bruce, Susannah Keebler. Thanks to Ian Hobson.

Since 2000, Clogs have plotted a unique course between outsider art and the avant-garde, composed music and popular song. The Sundown Song EP presents Clogs at their most intimate. Mostly the work of founder Padma Newsome in singer-songwriter and choral director mode, it finds him creating and singing songs depicting his life and thoughts from his current home base, Mallacoota, one of the most isolated towns in the Australian state of Victoria.

The EP presents three songs about mortality and bittersweet endings, gently backed by the Mallacoota Community Choir. From the album art to the thematic material, it offers a coda to Clogs' much beloved 2010 songcycle The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton, and marks an ending of what Clogs once were as well as a reaffirmation of what they continue to be.

Clogs have already outlasted, influenced and impressed a who's who of modern music. They co-headlined the very last performance of post-rock godfathers Rachel's in New York. When The National emerged as the late bloomer favorite of the Brooklyn indie scene, it was Newsome's arrangements and playing that helped now-classic albums Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers, Alligator and Boxer stand out.

When The Books began performing their folk-classical constructions live, Clogs were there as their crack backing band. And last year, when minimalist composer Steve Reich celebrated his 70th birthday, Clogs were invited to take part in the concert celebration assembled by London's prestigious Barbican Centre. Not surprisingly we've heard Clogs praised by a heterogeneous mix of artists ranging from Antony and Grizzly Bear, to Sufjan Stevens and Laurie Anderson, to the younger composers who founded New Amsterdam Records.

Clogs continue to stand as an inspiration to and primary influence on today's increasingly boundaryless "new music" world.

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Lyrics:

The Sundown Song
(Dedicated to Naomi Gordon, with Inspiration from Carson Robison and Ian Hobson)

The sun comes up and the sun goes down.
The hands on the clock keep going round and round.

Time has come, and the shadow's gone.
Time to move, time to move on,
But I'd rather stay here.

Time to move, time to move on.
The people come and the people go,
But I'd rather stay here with you.

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