Of Monsters And Men's new video for Empire from their second record Beneath The Skin tells quite an unconventional love story between two women with a significant difference in age.

Director Tabitha Denholm explained, "Some of the inspiration came from the ultimate May - December relationship Harold and Maude. In that story the older character has the younger spirit. Her closeness to death has made her more alive so that her child-like wanderlust reinvigorates the jaded youngster. I wanted to mirror that - challenging the convention of age vs. youth. In our story the charismatic older lady sets the younger alight with her vital spirit culminating in a transformative moment of love."

TABITHA DENHOLM:

"I am interested in showing relationships and stories about women that we don’t usually get to see in music videos so when OMAN said they wanted to make a video about a forbidden relationship I was immediately excited!

"From the inception I had Erika Linder in mind. You can say she has modelled as a boy and a girl but foremost she is just Erika. The way she exists beyond convention mades her perfect for this project - not to mention the fact she is striking on screen with her luminescent skin.

"Then the moment i saw a picture of Ingmari Lamy I knew she had that magnetic quality it would take to make the relationship believable. She was a big model in the 60s and had recently come out of retirement. Coincidentally we had to fly both ladies in from Sweden - although it took a while to track Ingmari down because she was at a retreat with no communication with the outside! There is something timeless about that Swedish aesthetic that helped to sell the idea that the characters were deeply connected."