At The Drive In Release Third Single ‘Hostage Stamps’ & Accompanying Video

“a punk-hardcore whirlwind of frantic virtuosity, torrential verbiage and barely sublimated fury…with whipsawing momentum: wild, precise, aggressive and smart.” – NEW YORK TIMES

“It was a celebration… to see At the Drive In is to watch Bixler hold court… a true showman” – VULTURE

“half-concert, half-religious experience” – AUSTIN360

“brilliant… fans roared with delight.” – AUSTIN CHRONICLE

“a SXSW phenomenon…we were privileged to see it all unfold.” – HOUSTON PRESS

“high-octane punk dominance” – GOTHAMIST

“the wait has certainly been worth it… they’re finally back to form, sweating it out on the stage like the… legends they are” – CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND

Fresh off a triumphant handful of US dates—including a surprise pop-up performance that was the talk of SXSW and a run of make-up dates including the euphoric sweat drenched NYC frenzy described above, At The Drive In has unleashed Hostage Stamps, the third single from the highly anticipated new album in • ter a • li • a, out May 5th on Rise Records/Cooking Vinyl Australia.

Pre-order in • ter a • li • a here.

Cedric Bixler-Zavala describes the song as “like walking through the hallway in some war-torn ghetto and reading the writing on the wall. When you hear things like, ‘Raise your nithing pole,’ I don’t think anyone will know what that is right away, but when you look it up, it’s this curse. We are going to be victorious. Here’s the fucking head on the stake in front of our army. We’re coming back. It’s reading the writing on the wall. It’s going and keeping your ear to the ground and listening to the heartbeat of young people.”

Expanding on that theme, the band has unveiled an ominous new video directed by Rob Shaw and Damon Locks (who also designed the characters and set) to accompany the single’s release. Using a mix of stop-motion as well as digital animation, the video depicts faceless militaristic figures holding a man captive, as billboards bearing ominous messages flash in and out of view. The final scene is an eruption of chaos as the prisoner sets off an explosion.

in • ter a • li • a TRACKLISTING:
01. No Wolf Like The Present
02. Continuum
03. Tilting At The Univendor
04. Governed By Contagions
05. Pendulum In A Peasant Dress
06. Incurably Innocent
07. Call Broken Arrow
08. Holtzclaw
09. Torrentially Cutshaw
10. Ghost-Tape No.9
11. Hostage Stamps

AMNPLIFY – BS