Watch Hemi Hemingway's Video For New Single 'Wings Of Desire'

In a week of standout local musical releases, Shaun Blackwell (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga) aka Hemi Hemingway's new single and video 'Wings of Desire' shines like a lustrous pearl. His second single of this year, following April's scorching '(To Be) Without You', 'Wings Of Desire' soars through sax-assisted rock-pop stratospheres of longing and regret.

Directed by Adam Joseph Browne and made with support from NZ On Air, the Buffcat frontman stars with The Snowflakes in the impeccably styled accompanying clip, an emotional baseball battleground where everyone is super good looking and cool — strutting the diamond with backup dancers, sexy background shenanigans and flashback lore. Feel the power and majesty of Hemi Hemingway's 'Wings of Desire'...

"When I wrote ‘Wings of Desire’, after an extended period of heightened anxiety and depression, I’d grown tired of feeling unwanted, unused, unrealised. However self-inflicted these feelings might have been, I felt about ready to burst. I wished to relive that constant ache of early-20s longing with self-conscious uncertainty, return to that delirium of potential love, when the risk was so high that tragedy lurked around every corner. I longed for that push and pull between excitement and heartache, to be inspired by the never knowing."

'Wings Of Desire' is out now on major streaming platforms via PNKSLM Recordings.