Gasoline Lollipops’ Clay Rose began writing “Humanity” throughout the pandemic—at a time when there have been much more urgent issues within the rapid neighborhood. “I used to be dwelling on prime of a hill in East Boulder (Colo.), and we have been flanked on either side by raging wildfires,” he says. “Greater than 1,000 properties have been misplaced in lower than two days.”
On the time, Rose had two younger children to look after. “From the place I sat, it regarded like we have been within the grips of an apocalypse,” says Rose. “On social media, everybody was both advantage signaling, fearmongering, finger-pointing or sending empty prayers. As lonely and disparaged because it all made me really feel, I may relate to all of them. How may I not be tempted by terror, self-righteousness or apathy within the face of such monumental chaos? I noticed myself and others reaching for these anti-virtues like pacifiers, and so they shortly grew to become society’s medication of selection. Possibly they at all times have been.”
Colorado’s extra eccentric, punk-minded reply to Outdated Crow Drugs Present and Turnpike Troubadours, the Gasoline Pops haven’t but hit on the crossover success of both of these acts, however they thrive on an analogous mix of honky tonk, Americana and nation rock that’s served them effectively over the course of 15 years and 6 albums. For his or her newest self-released LP, Kill The Architect, the quintet introduced in longtime Los Lobos member Steve Berlin as producer. Out there June 13, the album additionally options appearances by Gregoy Alan Isakov and Fruition’s Mimi Naja.
Curiously, the songs on Kill The Architect have their origins in Sam & Delilah, a redneck sendup of the biblical story that Rose composed as a ballet for Denver dance firm Wonderbound. Whether or not “Humanity” ever discovered its approach into the narrative is anybody’s guess. However its video does deal with a well-known subject: society’s obsession with fame and materialism.
“I play a satirical game-show host, interviewing his personal human conscience,” says Rose. “The host taunts and belittles the woke up critic, as he dances amid the sins of contemporary society. It culminates within the demise of the game-show host—presumably overdosed on his personal senseless self-indulgence.”
We’re proud to premiere the Gasoline Pops’ “Humanity” video.
—Hobart Rowland
