Watch “The Swimmer,” a New Video from METZ
After helping kickstart Canadian Music Week in Toronto over the weekend, local noise-punk trio METZ have released a video for “The Swimmer,” a track that appears on the band’s new album, II (out tomorrow.)
With the Scott Cudmore-directed clip, viewers are taken on a nausea-inducing ride through the life of a creepy-looking man that’s being baptized in a bathtub, visualizing some crazy characters, along with ending up in various places he doesn’t want to be.
“I look at it like this,” offers METZ frontman Alex Edkins. “You start a band, just as something to do, because music’s what makes you tick, the thing you dream about and think about and that’s it. You never think that you’ll be able to do it all the time. But then, for some inexplicable reason, people actually listen and latch on and the band begins to take on new meaning. All of a sudden there are expectations and pressure, real or imagined, to change who you are. It was important to us, when making this record, not to give in to that pressure.”
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