Speedy Ortiz share new single 'Plus One'

With their eagerly-awaited new album landing later this year, Speedy Ortiz have now dropped the next cut to be lifted from their forthcoming full-length.

The new single 'Plus One' comes accompanied by a brilliant new video, which was directed, shot, edited and animated by Dylan Mars Greenberg, and follows on from the previously shared tracks 'Scabs' and 'You S02' in previewing their new LP 'Rabbit Rabbit', which is out on the 1st September via Wax Nine.

Speaking about the new offering, the band's Sadie Dupuis said, "I love touring, but the workaholism it encourages has been a convenient way to repress my feelings. In the pandemic, I found myself ruminating on my estrangement from an abusive family member. I’ve used my songwriting to process other experiences of violence, but had not broached these memories until Rabbit Rabbit. Being able to work on old trauma in therapy and in my writing has helped my boundaries elsewhere, and taught me to move on from exploitative relationships.

"That’s what “Plus One” is about, and it came out pretty quickly as a sad acoustic waltz. I was sitting on the floor of an empty living room, mid-move, and the bare surroundings added a liminal starkness, though some of the imagery is inspired by scenes from West Philly that summer. When I went back to do pre-production, Texan post-hardcore was in my head, so I tried to channel At the Drive-In and Trail of Dead, bands that inspired me as a teen.

"We made the video with director Dylan Mars Greenberg, whose campiness and B-movie expertise was a perfect fit for the band’s also very campy videography. We’ve done a ton of horror homages but had never paid tribute to an old school monster movie. Dylan’s pet bunny Voodoo was a perfect Godzilla-sized star—a cuddly rabbit who’s mad as hell and not going to take it anymore."

Check out the new video for 'Plus One' in the player below.

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