Next month, IAN SWEET will release their sophomore album, Crush Crusher, the follow-up to 2016's excellent Shapeshifter. We've already heard one track from it, "Hiding," and today Jilian Medford is sharing another one, the knotty and explosive "Spit." It's a song about anticipating the end: "You'll go and I'll get swallowed by someone else's spit," Medford sings, surrounded by distorted guitars and a pervasively fuzzy atmosphere.
"I wrote the song in the [beginning] stages of a relationship and was already having premonitions of ruining it," Medford explained in an interview with Noisey. "Sometimes I like doing this type of songwriting where I predict how something will go. Writing a song for the future breakup. It’s fun but sad."
The song comes attached to a video, directed by Michael Tyrone Delaney, in which Medford is plopped in a desert surrounded by two flying chairs and a bathtub. She spits out strawberry milk, there's flashes of her spazzing out in a different room, and it all adds to the song's sense of decaying, prolonged collapse.
Watch and listen below.
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TOUR DATES:
10/18 - Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room #
10/20 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill #
10/22 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios #
10/23 - Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret #
10/24 - Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern #
10/25 - Boise, ID @ The Olympic #
10/26 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court #
10/27 - Denver, CO @ Hi Dive #
10/29 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry #
10/30 - Chicago @ Subterranean #
11/01 - Toronto, ON @ The Monarch #
11/02 - Buffalo @ Mohawk Place #
11/03 - Boston, MA @ Great Scott # ^
11/05 - Brooklyn, NY @ Park Church Co-op # ^
11/06 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda's # ^
11/07 - Washington, DC @ Union Stage #
11/08 - Durham, NC @ The Pinhook #
11/09 - Asheville, NC @ The Mothlight #
11/10 - Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn #
11/11 - Orlando, FL @ 11Eleven Fest
11/12 - Tallahassee, FL @ The Wilbury #
11/13 - New Orleans, LA @ Gasa Gasa #
11/14 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall #
11/15 - Dallas, TX @ Three Links #
11/16 - Austin, TX @ The Mohawk #
11/19 - Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar #
11/20 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar #
11/28 - Omaha, NE @ O'Leavers #
# w/ Young Jesus
^ w/ Sean Henry
Crush Crusher is out 10/26 via Hardly Art. Pre-order it here.
