With a shiny US record deal under their belts, The Phoenix Foun­da­tion are get­ting ready to take over the world with their upcom­ing third album enti­tled “Hap­py End­ing” (which dis­pens­es with — dis­ap­point­ing­ly — the equine-themed nature of their pre­vi­ous two releas­es: “Horse Pow­er” & “Pega­sus”).

Here’s the first sin­gle and video from the album, shot, I’m told, in Island Bay, and direct­ed by fel­low Welling­ton­ian and Oscar-nom­i­nat­ed film-mak­er, Tai­ka Wait­i­ti.