Garbage have unveiled a politically-charged new video to their powerful song 'No Horses'.
The video features footage of demonstrations where subordinate individuals are fighting for equality. Street protests are arguably the best, most proven way to create political change from the ground up - after all The Civil Rights Movement in America rested on them - so they're scenes worth immortalizing, and celebrating in video.
The scenes in the video that are most obviously detectable are anti-Trump rallies, and Black Lives Matter protests. But Garbage seem intent on focusing on a whole host of issues and the band scene of someone wheeling a trolley through a supermarket is an ovious dig at the meat industry whilst rockets shootign to the sky suggest an anti-war sentiment.
The lyrics, meanwhile, seem to question what might happen if protests dry up, and governments get so much of a grip over its citizens that we enter into a more fascist world.
Dark synth patterns with industrial rock edge circa Nine Inch Nails combine with a Savages-esque darkness to the lead vocal suit the apocalyptic narrative.
The video director Scott Stuckey has this to say about the intense new video: "It's been my observation that when governments disregard their citizens for their own greed, the ensuing soundtrack usually kick's ass. Like Nina Simone’s 'Mississippi Goddam' or the Clash's 'Straight To Hell’, 'No Horses' made me realise that I'm not going insane, these really are fucked up times. The lyrics are powerful so the challenge was to add something visually that wouldn't ruin the individual's interpretation."
Meanwhile, Garbage are on tour in the USA on the Rage and Rapture tour with Blondie, and undoubtedly despairing towards Trump in the process. Check here for ticket information
August 2 - Mann Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, PA
August 3 - Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA
August 5 - The Red Hat Amphitheater, Raleigh, NC
August 6 - Chastain Park Amphitheater, Atlanta, GA
August 8 - Seminole Hard Rock Live Arena, Hollywood, FL
August 9 - Hard Rock Live, Orlando, FL
August 11 - ACL Live, Austin, TX
August 12 - Southside Ballroom, Dallas, TX
August 14 - Palacio de Los Deportes, Mexico City, MX
September 15 - Fantasy Springs Casino - Indio, CA *
September 16 - Kaaboo Festival, Del Mar, CA *
October 20th-21st - Coordenada Festival, Guadalajara, MX*
*Dates not part of Rage & Rapture tour