Photo by Noémie Plante

To say this time of year is stressful within the work force would be an understatement. For all the talk our culture purports of taking breaks to celebrate the holiday season and spending time with family and/or friends, it sure has a funny way of showing it once you add up the longer work hours, fire drills, and workload intensity thrown onto already worn-out backs by a capitalist structure built to prevent us from actually enjoying our lives before we die. A line must be drawn, and in Gulfer’s case, it’s in blood and death itself (hypothetically, it must be stated,) as the Montreal indie-emo rockers take matters into their own hands and wash them of it on “Clean”. That’s quite the appropriate title for it as well, as it marks a turn toward polished vocals and a smoother lean into hooks to tell the tale of Nicki and Nicki’s soon-to-be-dead boss that color contrast the lyrics darker hues and the more mathematical edges heard from the band’s previous life dilemmas. “So if he had a nice dream ends justify the means / Wipe the fingerprints clean,” sings vocalist Vincent Ford. The collected manner in which Gulfer carry out this fiction almost suggests that they’ve thought this through carefully before…

Directed by: Jordano Aguzzi and Vincent Ford

Gulfer’s “Clean” single is available now on Topshelf Records.