Heartworms has released a new single for the Speedy Wunderground, titled ‘Jacked’.
The new track, which you can watch a video for below, continues to evolve the sound that tQ first loved on previous cuts ‘Retributions Of An Awful Life’ and ‘A Comforting Notion’. The artist says the new song is about “a darkness or entity which you are running away from… but it is really you that holds it”.
The video is directed by a longtime collaborator of Heartworms, Gilbert Trejo, who said of it: “To me, ‘Jacked’ is the soundtrack to a paranoid fever dream. There’s a movement and energy to the song that Jojo and I knew we needed to convey when we were writing the video. We wanted her in flight, but she had to be alone in the world, so I went through and scratched everyone else’s faces off the film emulsion with a safety pin. That feeling of loneliness and the unknown. Scary and hilarious.
“We figured if I jumped in the van on her US tour and shot it on an old 35mm camera I’d recently built, we could utilise all the free foreign locations. Pulling over if we saw something sick, and time allowed. Then we finished it out with help from (DP) Max Flick and (PD) Frankie Latina at the abandoned zoo in LA after the tour was over.”
Tickets for Heartworms’ forthcoming tour are available from this Thursday (June 13) here.
‘Jacked’ is out now on Speedy Wunderground.
