Truck Violence, the Montreal-based folk-punk and noisy post-hardcore band, have signed to the Flenser and announced a new album. Their sophomore LP, The Weathervane Is My Body, is out June 26. Check out the lead single “New Jesus” and its Kirill Sommer-directed music video below.
Guitarist-banjoist Paul Lecours and singer-poet Karsyn Henderson formed Truck Violence after moving from the remote prairies of Alberta to the busy metropolis of Montreal as 17-year-olds. Upon arriving in the city, they welcomed bassist Chris Clegg and drummer Thomas Hart into the fold, and released their debut album, Violence, on Mothland in 2024 before it got a vinyl rerelease through Southern Lord. Their new album is billed as a product of that relocation and adjusting to major city life.
In a lengthy statement, Henderson describes “New Jesus” as a rant about “the blatant fascistic slide” in the United States and on TV. He continues: “It is loosely about the ABC—Trump settlement and the post-January 6th election fraud cases. The lack of any broader moral compulsions beyond centralizing power on the political right has led to a culture of post-truth, where there is no reward in accuracy unless it leads to an augmenting of one’s political capital, which it rarely does… There is surprising apathy among young people in regards to this slide, who believe the acquisition of power and the subsequent lording over that occurs, is merely nature, essentially; what will happen, will happen. With these lines of thinking, you find more people sympathetic to this mode, if it is both natural and inevitable, why not acclimate and reap the rewards.”
Read about Truck Violence in 6 Highlights From Pitchfork Music Festival London 2025 and Violence in The 84 Best Albums of 2025 So Far.
The Weathervane Is My Body:
01 My Dog Would Fuck the Air
02 Jaundiced and Reaching for a Mother
03 Compelled by Christy
04 House Caught Fire
05 New Jesus
06 Your Name, It’s Walking
07 Stomach as a Tower and the Globules Descending
08 Gerard, Be Quiet
09 Kindly, Wash Yourself
