Midwest indie band Remo Drive have announced their fourth record, Mercy, will drop February 23. Check out the lead single—the album’s title track—and its offbeat, retro, Spaghetti Western-inspired music video, now.
Written from a sarcastic POV and inspired by a Nick Cave interview, the track’s lyrics suggest to the listener that they should be completely unforgiving of anyone who ever does something that they don’t like, as the black-and-white, retro-style video culminates in a standoff with toy guns.
Vocalist/guitarist Erik Paulson warns, “This is (in my humble opinion) not good advice.”
Mercy is the band’s most lyric-focused offering to date, a record about reinvention, trusting yourself, and wearing your heart on your sleeve even when it’s painful or vulnerable.
It’s a study in intimacy and being real with yourself as the band enter an exciting new creative chapter where they are making the art they really want to make.
A major sonic departure for the band, the album is less indebted to the emo and pop punk that foregrounded the duo’s career, instead investing in thorny, baroque indie pop by way of Father John Misty and Fleet Foxes.
Check out “Mercy” below, and follow Remo Drive: Facebook/X/Instagram
Image courtesy of Remo Drive
