Have a watch of White Lung‘s video for ‘Dead Weight‘ below.
It’ll give you an idea as to why the band’s ‘Paradise‘ album has just been nominated for the Polaris Music Prize – which celebrates the best of Canadian music – along with Grimes, Carly Rae Jepsen, U.S Girls and others.
“For White Lung, punk virtues mean more than operating in ever decreasing artistic circles to please a handful of fickle shadows,” our review reads. “This isn’t a case of scorching their own earth, merely wanting to look up at the stars from something other than a gutter. And they can still smack obsessively: on ‘Hungry‘ the subject is living a lie, suppressing desires which whirl around him, conjured in chords that mark the trio at their most accessible yet.”
“Even in totality its nothing as bourgeois as a statement of intent of course, but whilst ‘Paradise’ is still a vision all of their own, for White Lung it means the days of having something to prove to anyone but themselves is long gone.”
