October Drift - Tyrannosaurus Wreck

It's been a while since we had featured English alt-rockers October Drift on glamglare but we absolutely didn't want to pass on their brand new single "Tyrannosaurus Wreck," which not only comes with a smile-inducing game on words but with a super sweet video too. Yet, as with all things super cool and also profound, it all comes with a bigger meaning as frontman and guitarist Kiran Roy explains:

“It’s about a relationship breakdown and the balance of life within this band and life outside of it. It’s like saying I'm a huge fucking disaster. It’s kind of silly, it has a tragic sort of self-awareness, making light of quite heavy themes.”

Of course, there's an even broader story to the making of the video. And I particularly remember one super cool video of the band when Kiran ran, and ran, and ran, and... ran ("Oh The Silence".) But let's hear what Kiran has to say about this video shoot:

“I thought it would be a cool concept but I’d pictured it being an actor or someone else in the dinosaur suit. I’m not sure how they did it but the band somehow convinced me to put on the dino suit and drag myself through a little southwest town with the guys filming me. It was a super hot day so it was hard work in the onesie, but I just had to keep reminding myself it was better than shooting the video for our single ‘Waltzer’ when I had water poured over my head for the entire thing at early morning sunrise. The ‘Tyrannosaurus Wreck’ video is kind of silly, but that suits the whole song, both kind of make light of a tragedy.”

The track will be on October Drift's upcoming album Blame The Young, out on September 27th, 2024. Listen to "Tyrannosaurus Wreck," our Song Pick of the Day, and make sure to watch the video too:

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