DeVotchKa just released This Night Falls Forever, the group’s sixth album and first in seven years. Our review noted that the group “sounds reinvigorated” on This Night Falls Forever, which “is a natural evolution for the quartet, maintaining their sense of the exotic while prioritizing pop hooks more than usual.” Today we premiere the official video for orchestral-pop tearjerker “Empty Vessels.”

DeVotchKa frontman Nick Urata explains, “For ‘Empty Vessels’ we teamed up with famed Czech director Martin Krejci. The story is based on true events. In Eastern Europe many beautiful, ancient villages were buried by reservoirs and mining waste. In the name of progress, entire generations were forced to relocate, personal history erased. Krejci’s own father was one of the many displaced. In this video our hero also grew up in one of these villages and takes matters in his own hand. He swims through the depths of time and space to reunite with his childhood sweetheart.”