Photo by Ariel Kenny

You can’t help but feel anxious listening to “1000 Engines”, the first single from Bruiser and Bicycle’s forthcoming album and first for Topshelf Records, Holy Red Wagon. Moving at the centripetal force created by its titular nature, the Albany band align their sound – an hyperactive, wily art rock cacophony of elastic guitars, percussion, wind instruments, and probably a kitchen sink somewhere in there, too – against a mirror of our modern state, whelmed by time, content, and trying to keep up with it all at a near-violent pace. “Aimlessly you’re running / Will you find your way home?,” asks multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Nick Whittemore. “The wicked hand might twist you sideways / So blow the fife while you sharpen the blade.” The acceleration only picks up from there, and when the track flies off the edge, that’s just the world regurgitating the excessiveness humanity places onto its back.

Directed by: John DeSousa

Bruiser and Bicycle’s Holy Red Wagon will be released April 5th on Topshelf Records.