Just in time for their national headline tour, revered Florida punk rock band Hot Water Music has unveiled a new video for their single, "Drag My Body." This track, along with twelve others, can be found on their current eighth full-length album in nearly two decades, "Exister," which is Florida punks' first album since 2004 and was released back in May via Rise Records. The band starts a tour in Tampa on January 16 with La Dispute and The Menzingers.
This rock foursome, which was formed back in 1993, has been a staple of the music scene for many years. Fans may see this as a sudden return for the group, however they only pressed pause in 2006, to pursue individual projects. Overall, the break worked; two years later, Hot Water Music reconvened to perform live, with a few shows involving into many, firing at full capacity for this new phase of their career.
"Drag My Body," is the first track from the record, and it finds the quartet returning to their roots in aggressive, emotionally volatile music. "Sooner or later we all inevitably hit a wall, and lose steam and find ourselves in the vortex of self-inflicted torment," says frontman Chuck Ragan. "'Drag My Body' is a simple story of finding oneself at a point of no return, at the end of a rope and teetering on the edge of madness with the realities of failure looming. Just as well realizing the capabilties of pulling oneself up from those obstructions and simply carrying on."
Considering the band's emotional and anthemic amp-cranker, it only makes sense that the video is a bit of a heart-tugger too. Directed by Josh Hegard and shot in Silverlake, California, the clip shows the band playing in the bar where a fight breaks out between biker-like individuals, as an old barfly trying to make ends meet selling art on the street and blood at a clinic. He favours a local tavern that clearly doesn't want him there, with a young bartender scribbling the message "go away bum" on a napkin before shoving it under his nose. Despite this, he keeps over-tipping the gal with his accumulated hundos, which serves to make the girl rightfully feel like shit once she connects the dots. It's dark but reflects well on the song.
"Drag My Body," is the first track from the record, and it finds the quartet returning to their roots in aggressive, emotionally volatile music. "Sooner or later we all inevitably hit a wall, and lose steam and find ourselves in the vortex of self-inflicted torment," says frontman Chuck Ragan. "'Drag My Body' is a simple story of finding oneself at a point of no return, at the end of a rope and teetering on the edge of madness with the realities of failure looming. Just as well realizing the capabilties of pulling oneself up from those obstructions and simply carrying on."
Considering the band's emotional and anthemic amp-cranker, it only makes sense that the video is a bit of a heart-tugger too. Directed by Josh Hegard and shot in Silverlake, California, the clip shows the band playing in the bar where a fight breaks out between biker-like individuals, as an old barfly trying to make ends meet selling art on the street and blood at a clinic. He favours a local tavern that clearly doesn't want him there, with a young bartender scribbling the message "go away bum" on a napkin before shoving it under his nose. Despite this, he keeps over-tipping the gal with his accumulated hundos, which serves to make the girl rightfully feel like shit once she connects the dots. It's dark but reflects well on the song.
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