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At the Drive In's New Track "Hostage Stamps" is Guaranteed to Melt Your Face, Sorry

It'll appear on 'in • ter a • li • a', the band's first record in 17 years, due next month.
Lauren O'Neill
London, GB

We're edging ever closer to the 5th May release of  in • ter a • li • a, the first LP in 17 years from reformed Texas punks At The Drive In. In the wake of December's teaser "Incurably Innocent," the band have today released another song from the album called "Hostage Stamps."

It's the sort of riffy track that the band's fanbase will surely have been hoping for – nobody is interested in a change of direction when they've been waiting for new material for almost two decades and anyone who says different is a liar. It features familiarly noodly, metal-inflected guitars and, of course, Cedric Bixler-Zavala wailing like he's trying to melt off your face with only his voice. In other words it's business as usual for a band whose 'business as usual' is the sound of someone throwing a rager in Hades.

Listen to "Hostage Stamps" (and watch the actually deeply disturbing music video, featuring faceless figures who put me in mind of Salad Fingers and who are now the reason I won't be able to sleep) below, and start doing your neck exercises because in • ter a • li • a drops next month via Rise Records, and you're almost definitely going to bang your head:

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