Truck Violence prepare for new LP release
Share “Gerard, be quiet” single / video
Announce North American tour dates in Sep/Nov/Dec
The weathervane is my body is out 6/26 on The Flenser
Photo by Matthew Van Dystadt-Aguiar
Canada's Truck Violence howl through the harsh edges of hardcore and folk with an ending result that is both comforting and confrontational. Their second full length record— The weathervane is my body— is an attempt to answer, an attempt at conciliation through refusal. Rooted in the noise rock and post-hardcore traditions, and steeped in a DIY ethic that runs deep in Canadian underground culture, the album 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.
Ahead of The weathervane is my body LP release (June 26 via The Flenser), Truck Violence have shared their latest single / music video "Gerard, be quiet." They comment:
"Closing your eyes on the way to school,
following along the bus’ route by way of memory
and of imagination.
Certain turns happen as expected,
your intuition the product of that pittering
mundanity;
Satan is lifted from vacuity, guided by the hand.
Eventually are lost, are tossed first left,
now right, and then are subject to a nondescript jostling.
You always reach school in the end."
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 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.
Pre-order The weathervane is my body here and see Truck Violence on the road this summer and beyond...
Truck Violence, live:
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
Sep 10 Burlington, VT — Foam Brewers
Sep 11 Littleton, NH — The Loading Dock
Sep 12 Elizabethtown, NY — Otis Mountain Get Down
Sep 13 Troy, NY — No Fun
Sep 15 Medford, MA — Deep Cuts
Sep 16 Queens, NY — Trans-Pecos
Sep 17 Washington, DC — Rhizome
Sep 18 Philadelphia, PA — Cousin Danny's
Sep 21 Pittsburgh, PA — Mr. Roboto Project
Sep 22 Chicago, IL — Not Not
Sep 23 Hamtramck, MI — The Sanctuary - The Crypt
Sep 24 Toronto, ON — Second Summer Festival
Sep 25 Montreal, QC — Pop Montreal Festival
Nov 13 Vancouver, BC — The Cobalt
Nov 15 Kelowna, BC — Jackknife
Nov 17 Calgary, AB — The Palomino
Nov 18 Edmonton, AB — The Buckingham
Nov 19 Saskatoon, SK — Black Cat
Nov 20 Regina, SK — The Exchange
Nov 21 Winnipeg, MB — The Handsome Daughter
Nov 25 Sudbury, ON — Townehouse Tavern
Nov 26 Hamilton, ON — Mills Hardware
Nov 27 London, ON — Honey Dip
Dec 11 Trois-Rivières QC — Café Bar Zénob
Dec 12 Quebec City, QC — Le Pantoum
The weathervane is my body, cover art:
The weathervane is my body, track list:
- My dog would fuck the air
- Jaundiced and reaching for a mother
- Compelled by Christy
- House caught fire
- New Jesus
- Your name, It's walking
- Stomach as a tower and the globules descending
- Gerard, be quiet
- Kindly, wash yourself
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