Photo credit: Matthew Van Dystadt-Aguiar
Canada’s Truck Violence have just unleashed their new single, “New Jesus,” along with an official music video. It comes from their second full length record, The weathervane is my body, out on June 26, through their new record label, The Flenser. Catch the video and more below.
Pre-order The weathervane is my body here: https://flnsr.to/tvweathervane
Vocalist Karsyn Henderson comments: “New Jesus” is a rant about the blatant fascistic slide occurring both to the south of our border and on screen. It is loosely about the ABC—Trump settlement and the post-January 6th election fraud cases. The lack of any broader moral compulsions beyond centralizing power on the political right has led to a culture of post-truth, where there is no reward in accuracy unless it leads to an augmenting of one’s political capital, which it rarely does.” He continues, “This is as destructive in politics as it is in art. There is surprising apathy among young people in regards to this slide, who believe the acquisition of power and the subsequent lording over that occurs, is merely nature, essentially; what will happen, will happen. With these lines of thinking, you find more people sympathetic to this mode, if it is both natural and inevitable, why not acclimate and reap the rewards. Why not join the fascist grift, degenerate art through tiktok, etc…”
After relocating from the Alberta prairies to Montréal at just seventeen years old, Truck Violence guitarist and banjoist Paul Lecours and singer-poet Karsyn Henderson navigated the shift from rural life to the city. The two grew up in a small town of 600 people, graduating in a class of nine. By age fifteen they were running a local studio and radio station. There was no industry support, no infrastructure, no template for what they were trying to do, only the work itself and the conviction that it was worth doing. They drew influence from punk, shoegaze, and sludge, and their distinctive sound emerges from years of experimentation across multiple projects, each shaping their evolving sonic identity. Upon their move to Montreal, they were joined by Chris Clegg (bass) and Thomas Hart (percussion) and began building Truck Violence from the ground up.
The weathervane is my body, the band’s second full-length record and first with San Francisco’s The Flenser, is the product of that entire process. Every element reflects this. The group composition, the recording, the mixing and the visual media were all produced in house without outside intervention. DIY here is not an aesthetic choice or a marketing angle, it is the only honest option available.
The weathervane is my body is a continuation, an expansion, a further scribbling together of that angry statement of purpose that is their debut album, aptly titled Violence. Rooted in the noise rock and post-hardcore traditions, and steeped in a DIY ethic that runs deep in Canadian underground culture, The weathervane is my body is uncompromising in its refusal to be anything other than what it is: immediate, self-determined, and built entirely by the hands that imagined it. The album cover was shot on film by the band on Avenue du Parc in Montreal. A figure perches atop a small Quebecois-style house, handbuilt from reclaimed materials, spine curved, legs pulled in, bare-backed against a skyline that dwarfs everything beneath it. A rural thing dropped into the grit of the city, small and out of place and refusing to disappear. The body is naked and defenseless, open to every stimulus the world cares to deliver. This is the album in a single image.
The weathervane is my body, tracklisting:
01 My dog would fuck the air
02 Jaundiced and reaching for a mother
03 Compelled by Christy
04 House caught fire
05 New Jesus
06 Your name, It’s walking
07 Stomach as a tower and the globules descending
08 Gerard, be quiet
09 Kindly, wash yourself
See Truck Violence this weekend at Roadburn and beyond. Truck Violence, live:
Apr 18 Tilburg, NL — Roadburn
Jun 27 Manchester, UK — Outbreak Festival
Jun 28 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK — Zerox
Jun 29 London, UK — Windmill Brixton
Jun 30 London, UK — Windmill Brixton
Jul 02 Roskilde, DK — Roskilde Festival
Jul 03 Montreuil, FR — Le Chinois
Jul 04 Ieper, BE — Ieper Fest
Jul 05 Rotterdam, NL — Vessel 11
Jul 07 Nottingham, UK — The Old Cold Store
Jul 08 Leeds, UK — Wharf Chambers
Jul 09 Withington, UK — 2000trees
Jul 10 Newport, UK — Le Pub
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