Silversun Pickups have premiered the video for “The Wreckage,” the lead single off the band’s upcoming album, Tenterhooks.
The clip, which is available on YouTube, follows a woman whose body has been taken over by an alien.
“This song, ‘The Wreckage,’ inspired me at a time I’d been thinking about this post I’d seen, with the question, ‘If men weren’t around, who would protect you?’ With a woman quickly countering, ‘Protect us from what?'” says director Suzie Vlček. “So I wrote about an alien joyride. This thing inside her knows nothing about being a human woman.”
“It’s about expectations, rules, being seen, being ignored…in an accelerated lifespan…or a 5 minute SSPU song,” Vlček continues. “Or as my son said, ‘It’s female gaze meets Venom.'”
In between all that, keep an eye out for a cameo from Jack Black.
Tenterhooks, the seventh SSPU album, drops Feb. 6. It’s the follow-up to 2022’s Physical Thrills.
Silversun Pickups will launch a U.S. tour in February.
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