PILE SHARE "TEXAS" VIDEO ON STEREOGUM // DIRECTED BY ADRIC GILES

Posted on August 29th, 2017

[as seen on Stereogum]

Pile’s latest album A Hairshirt Of Purpose came out earlier this year on Exploding In Sound Records and “Texas” was its lead single. It’s a twitchy rock and roll song that showcases Pile at their very best, and today the band debuted a video to accompany it. The animator Adric Giles directed the clip, and Pile’s Rick Maguire shared a brief explanation of why he chose to illustrate “Texas” in this way.

The song is about the five gyres of trash floating in the ocean, I like to think that this little character symbolizes the collective unconscious running from that reality, but I guess it also represents the running against the current that pulls you towards the accumulation of trash. Yin and Yang or something. Plus, I’ve always dug animation. Thanks Adric.

Watch below.