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All Souls Post “You Just Can’t Win” Video from New Album Songs for the End of the World

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Here’s one for you: I could’ve premiered this video. And I would’ve been frickin’ thrilled to do it. It’s All Souls! Their 2018 self-titled debut (review here) was one of my favorite and most-listenend-to albums of that year and the news that they have a follow-up, titled Songs for the End of the World and due out sometime in the coming months, is nothing if not welcome. To top it off, “You Just Can’t Win,” which is the first single from this impending sophomore outing, rules. The guitar work is dynamic and emotionally resonant and the vocals of Antonio Aguilar bring out the best of the characteristic delivery he’s had since the days when he and All Souls bassist Meg Castellanos were laying waste in underappreciated heavy rockers Totimoshi.

And do I need to remind that along with the guitar of Erik Trammell alongside Aguilar‘s own there resides in the rhythm section one Tony Tornay of Fatso Jetson?

To top it off, the video rules! It’s creative, it’s got purpose and a message to deliver, and the mania that ensues in the imagery fits the song perfectly.

So what happened?

It went to spam.

Shit you not.

Worse — Facebook Messenger spam. For The Obelisk page.

I didn’t even know that existed! I stumbled on it by accident checking my messages yesterday and it was loaded with stuff, including the proposal to premiere this clip and hot damn if I wouldn’t have been all over it. Instead here I am posting it two-plus weeks after the fact and feeling like a chump because I just found out not only about the video and the LP but that All Souls are coming east next month to do shows. What a jerk.

I know Aguilar is talking about issues that actually matter in the song and that mine is only the white-privilegeliest of plights, but it’s good to know the message applies on multiple levels. For what it’s worth, he’s right on all counts.

My sincere hope is to have more on the new All Souls album before it comes out. Until then, please enjoy the video. It’s directed by Marcos Sanchez, record produced by Toshi Kasai. Note the blank space in the PR wire info where it says who did the premiere. Could’ve been me.

Dig:

All Souls, “You Just Can’t Win” official video

LA-based rockers All Souls are set to unleash a new single “You Just Can’t Win”—a blistering commentary on the populist-inspired prejudice and violence plaguing modern society — digitally on January 24 and have also shared an accompanying video to the song directed by Marcos Sanchez (The Breeders). The video premiered today at____. All Souls creates songs that are lyrically dark, infused with the band’s unique style and perspective on the state of today’s world and this one is no exception. Produced by Toshi Kasai (Tool, Melvins, Foo Fighters), the song seethes with the tightly coiled angry vocals and menacing guitar of founder Antonio Aguilar. Also appearing on the track are Meg Castellanos (bass, vocals), Erik Trammell (guitar), and Tony Tornay (drums). “You Just Can’t Win” is taken from their forthcoming album, Songs For The End Of The World, which will be released later this year. The new material is the follow up to their 2017 eponymous debut album and follows a spectacular 2018 which saw the band embark on tours with Tool and Meat Puppets. All Souls will celebrate the release of the single with a headlining show at The Paramount Ballroom on January 25th.
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Says Aguilar: “I write from the perspective of a brown man. A man subjected to continuous subjugation from his youth into adulthood. When I sing ‘You Just Can’t Win,’ I have multiple tiers of emotions happening. One is combative anger, but then I feel a sense of sadness and compassion, and not just towards the victims mourned in the song, but towards the lost and deranged person. By the ending ‘Oh they fell, oh they fall’ – it’s just pure sadness.”

The video, which incorporates fittingly dystopian stock footage augmented and brought to life by stunning hand drawn animation, was conceived and directed by Chilean artist, animator and filmmaker Marcos Sanchez who most recently created the video for the Breeders’ “Walking With A Killer” which was released on Halloween of last year.

Says Sanchez: “The video is a mix of found footage and 2D, hand drawn animation. I gathered footage that could relate to this in an interesting way, not really wanting to illustrate the idea but to complement it with a parallel story that conveyed the feelings of dread and senseless violence that I see in the subject matter. The band wanted very strong imagery. We discussed about Images of the “perfect” American way of life being “threatened” by immigration and social change. We also discussed about having lots of destruction, as a way to show the threat of violence that the song talks about. As for the animation I propose the band to use images of skeletons representing death which curiously coincided with the art for the new album, which was perfect.”

All Souls live:

•March 17: Once Lounge w/Child Abuse and Il Mostro
156 Highland Ave Somerville, MA 02143

•March 18: St Vitus Bar w/Child Abuse
1120 Manhattan Ave Brooklyn, NY 11222

•March 19/TBA

•March 20: Westside Bowl
2617 Mahoning Ave Youngstown, OH 44509

•March 21: Rockerbuilt Studios
2012 Northwestern Pkwy Louisville, KY40203

•March 22: Rose Music Hall
1013 Park Ave Columbia, MO 65201

•March 23: The Record Bar Mini Bar w/Pamper the Madman
1520 Grand Blvd Kansas City, MO 64108

All Souls are:
Antonio Aguilar (vocals, guitar)
Meg Castellanos (bass, vocals)
Erik Trammell (guitar)
Tony Tornay (drums)

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