God Help the Girl - ＂Come Monday Night＂

What this video is

Released 11 May 2009, 'Come Monday Night' was the debut single from God Help the Girl, Stuart Murdoch's chamber-pop side project built around female vocalists and the embryonic narrative of what would become the 2014 film. The project emerged from Murdoch's 2004 vision of writing songs for an imaginary girl-fronted band, with vocalist Catherine Ireton — discovered via a circuitous Glasgow music-scene connection —…

Why it matters

As the debut release of God Help the Girl, this video marks the public launch of one of the most ambitious concept-album-to-film projects in British indie pop history. It documents the orchestral chamber-pop mode that Murdoch had been refining since the mid-2000s, distinct from Belle & Sebastian's…