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Premiere: Fall Down a Well With New Gum Sarn In Their Latest Video

'New Gold Mountain', the Kiwi post-punkers latest track wafts to the surface like melodic sulphur.

The police showed up during the filming of New Gum Sarn’s latest video at an old industrial estate north of Auckland. Apparently a sheep had been mauled by a dog nearby. We’re not sure if the cops had their handguns drawn but everybody managed to get away unscathed. The sheep not so much.

Though the four-piece have found their feet in the Auckland music scene during 2015, they are really more of a small town affair, having recorded their debut album New Gold Mountain in a valley just outside of Puhoi.

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The video seems pretty isolating too. Set at the bottom of a well, it's filmed in one shot while the dreamy, layered vocals and chiming guitar line waft to the surface.

Check out the clip below, as well as a few questions we asked singer Oscar Dowling.

Noisey: The entire video takes place at the bottom of a well. Were you actually in the well?
Oscar Dowling: We didn't climb down a well but it had a similar feel, there were no camera tricks and all the footage came from a single shot.

You are named after an Asian supermarket in one of Auckland's grottiest, most piss stained yet fantastic food courts. What makes it "new"? It seems anything but.
‘New Gum Sarn’ is the name given to New Zealand by Chinese settlers during the gold rush, meaning a place to start a new life and prospects. This idea is still relevant today, in spite of the physical appearance of that specific supermarket.

Any gems on their shelves that greater Auckland doesn't know about?
The three kilogram packs of poppy seeds are a bit of a gem, although not undiscovered by locals. In fact they are often the only item missing from the shelves.

Catch New Gum Sarn at these shows:
July 17 – Christchurch at the Darkoom
July 18 – Queenstown at the Sherwood
July 23 – Port Chalmers at Chicks Hote
July 24 – Wellington, Eyegum Music Collective
July 25 – Wellington at Moon
August 1 – Auckland at Winecellar

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