Cyrus Shahrad, maker of the Festive Fifty no.1 last year ‘Insurrection’, records as Hiatus. He has been responsible not only for some fine music, but also videos in the promos for ‘Save Yourself‘ and the aforementioned ‘Insurrection‘ (the latter featuring the vocal talents of none other than Linton Kwesi Johnson. Videos that move this writer to tears.

However, me blubbing at videos on YouTube aside, as it became clear when I interviewed him last year, Mr. Shahrad is not a man to let the grass grow beneath his feet.

He has just released the mightily fine three-track EP Change Up. This features vocal talents from his friend Matt Falloon of Smoke Feathers. The two of them have known each other for many years -and in fact were in a band together at University called Holy Smoke, which also featured none other than Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip on guitar.

This is the video for Change Up: narrative, and not a little sad, but not without hope, either:

Stream the whole EP here. Seriously. What else were you going to do with the next fifteen minutes?