Lifting weights on the health club — that is a subject that is not my enterprise. Not taken with it, fairly frankly. But Chicago’s Caught have managed to show it into the poetic topic of “Deadlift,” their phenomenal new single from their forthcoming file Optimizer.
“I’ve change into considerably of a health club rat over the past a number of years,” Greg Obis admits. “Lifting weights has been indispensable for my bodily and psychological well being. And but, after I’m in a darkish place, the health club can typically underscore emotions of loneliness and futility. ‘Deadlift’ makes use of the health club as a manner to have a look at how atomized we’ve got change into; fixating on ourselves in public, locked into our health routines with our headphones, barely acknowledging the opposite folks within the room, optimizing our wellness whereas racing to a crimson mild.”
The riffs are poignant, the bassline is intense, and the lyrics are sensible: “Headphones in/ Eyes locked on my determine a room stuffed with males/ Ignoring one another.” Watch the Austin Vesely-directed music video under.
Optimizer is out 3/27 by way of Exploding In Sound.
