The Gaslight Anthem play to spastic dancers in the music video for their dramatic new single "Get Hurt," the second single and title track from American rock band's just-released fifth studio album. Musically, the song continues where their major label debut "Handwritten" left off, moving the band into smoother sonic territory. With its big chorus and the polished production, "Get Hurt" is a far cry from their punk-meets-Bruce Springsteen early days. The video features a modern dance theme, with dancers appearing alongside the band, who are playing in a lavish barroom.
Breaking away from their by now trademark South Jersey, cruising with the radio on brand of punk rock that first got them noticed, the band is feeling particularly emotional on their new album. Strip away the glossy, nostalgic lines touting vinyl records, handwritten letters and grandma's old radio, the New Brunswick rock four-piece have cashed in time and time again on nods to old-school hot rods, blue collars and frontman Brian Fallon's ceaseless heartache. But "Get Hurt" finds catharsis, strength in endless heartache as Fallon seems to have recognized the painful pattern. It might be about heartbreak (an upside-down heart forms the cover art), but Fallon has always written about such stuff.
The album's slow-building title track, is a surprisingly Killers-esque turn for a band who used to occupy the middle ground between Bruce Springsteen and Social Distortion. The modern, alternative ballad, featured a hard-rock sound, offers plenty of melodrama, building to an intense sing-along classic, sparkles with the kind of romance and vulnerability that has become one of the band's hallmarks but at the same time the atmospheric, expansive sound signals a progression in favor of a more nuanced approach.
The video takes place in one of those dimly-lit, old-timey and run-down dive bars where full of half-drunk, half-sleepy people. But when the Jersey boys start rocking out to their anthemic title track, they're not entertaining just any old rowdy crowd; instead, the bar denizens hop up and start doing some spastic interpretive dancing as soon as the chorus kicks in. It ends, as it must, with a pretty lady in particular gives it her all, dancing amid a flurry of pillow feathers as red light bathes the room. It's pretty silly! Watch it below.
Breaking away from their by now trademark South Jersey, cruising with the radio on brand of punk rock that first got them noticed, the band is feeling particularly emotional on their new album. Strip away the glossy, nostalgic lines touting vinyl records, handwritten letters and grandma's old radio, the New Brunswick rock four-piece have cashed in time and time again on nods to old-school hot rods, blue collars and frontman Brian Fallon's ceaseless heartache. But "Get Hurt" finds catharsis, strength in endless heartache as Fallon seems to have recognized the painful pattern. It might be about heartbreak (an upside-down heart forms the cover art), but Fallon has always written about such stuff.
The album's slow-building title track, is a surprisingly Killers-esque turn for a band who used to occupy the middle ground between Bruce Springsteen and Social Distortion. The modern, alternative ballad, featured a hard-rock sound, offers plenty of melodrama, building to an intense sing-along classic, sparkles with the kind of romance and vulnerability that has become one of the band's hallmarks but at the same time the atmospheric, expansive sound signals a progression in favor of a more nuanced approach.
The video takes place in one of those dimly-lit, old-timey and run-down dive bars where full of half-drunk, half-sleepy people. But when the Jersey boys start rocking out to their anthemic title track, they're not entertaining just any old rowdy crowd; instead, the bar denizens hop up and start doing some spastic interpretive dancing as soon as the chorus kicks in. It ends, as it must, with a pretty lady in particular gives it her all, dancing amid a flurry of pillow feathers as red light bathes the room. It's pretty silly! Watch it below.
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