No Cymbals is the first of two EPs preceding The Rule of Small Things. These releases offer a preview of the album, attempt to find missing pieces and give some supporting characters the chance to develop.

Elizabeth Cufley’s accompanying video distills the song’s formative image into a hazy Super 8 exploration of perception and causation, leaves and stones, sea and sky. One grain of sand, one piece of ash from one last cigarette. The storm is in the teacup.