Andrea Arnold makes a very rare appearance as a music video director - possibly her debut - for old friends Sleaford Mods team-up with artist and performer Sue Tompkins, in the familiar territory of the Dartford estate where she shot her seminal Oscar-winning short film Wasp.

Shot by long-term collaborator Robbie Ryan - the DoP on her acclaimed features Red Road, Fish Tank, Wuthering Heights, American Honey and Bird, the film for No Touch, shot on a mix of 16mm and 35mm, features the duo performing the track alongside locals and dancers in the falling leaves of British November.

The video also features Sue Tompkins, visual artist and former lead singer of Glasgow rock band Life Without Buildings, who becomes the latest female vocal foil to Sleaford's frontman Jason Williamson, following the likes of Billy Nomates, Amy Taylor from Amyl & The Sniffers and, most recently, Gwendoline Christie.

“I had such a lovely day making the video with the Sleafords and Sue Tompkins," says Arnold, who featured both the Sleafords' track Jolly Fucker and a cameo by Jason Williamson in her latest film Bird - also shot in Dartford.

"The shoot reminded me of my days out to Margate with my family. It was bonkers, chaotic and funny and we got chips on the way home. I had such a good time working with them all. Although we all do different things we were all somehow connected. Like our work and lives all intermingled somehow. Lovely.”

Jason Williamson has commented that the song "is colourful and full of heavy realism, a kitchen sink drama," and that it “couldn’t have been captured by anyone else. Andrea Arnold fits perfectly with its soft nightmare theme."

He adds: "It is a song about isolation, loneliness and crushing self-harm that we all try to navigate, I suppose, under the rigid structures of conformity. Andrea took us back to her old neighbourhood, which also felt very familiar to me. The video, like her films, doesn’t end in total black out, but it trails hope too.”