NYDUS’ “CIRCLE” OUT NOW — THE VIDEO THAT CLOSES CITY OF LONDON VOL. 1

NYDUS has released the official music video for “Circle”, the lead single from City of London Vol. 1 — and it feels like the moment the whole project has been building toward. Already the most-played cut from the EP so far, “Circle” now arrives with a visual that finally matches the scale of the record: disciplined, cinematic, and unmistakably NYDUS.

NYDUS writes like someone who’s become hyper-selective with intimacy, not because he’s heartless, but because he’s seen how quickly love gets tangled with access. There’s a tension in the lyricism: he’s guarded, almost cold by design, yet you can hear the romantic impulse underneath it, the part of him that wants softness, but won’t risk it in the wrong hands.

Backed by BBC Radio London Introducing support from Jess Iszatt — who even singled out the guitar work during the segment, the video leans fully into live musicianship. Shot around a full band set-up inside a Brighton penthouse apartment, it has a throwback feel to those early-2000s “band in a room” video sets, just upgraded: moodier, cleaner and built like a film. Key players are present, including Jarod Hardcastle on vocals and George Styles on guitar, with Chris Generalz appearing on drums in the video (and contributing additional synth work on the record).

City of London Vol. 1 [Artwork Designed by Jordan Wilson)

Between the penthouse scenes, a boat sequence, heavy-rain shots, and clean flashes of a cocaine-white Range Rover and Audi A5 estate, the visual is packed with details, handshakes, quiet power moves and NYDUS wearing the same suit as the cover art, showing his world without over-explaining it. A male model (John Pritchard) reenacts the “pills and sedatives” line inside the apartment, framed less like a flex and more like a warning with NYDUS almost counselling him.

The video expands beyond the penthouse with scenes on a boat, rain-drenched street moments where the downpour is impossible to miss, and flashes of NYDUS moving through his world, handshakes, quiet meetings and the same suit seen on the EP artwork. A male model reenacts the “pills and sedatives” lyric inside the apartment, with NYDUS framed more as a calm counsellor than a spectator.

Produced by NYDUS with co-production from Kavin Ruanglertbutr, “Circle” is melancholic, sharp and ends with a switch-up that proves just how versatile this sound can get.

This is the final video from City of London Vol. 1 and it lands like a closing statement.