Truck Violence: The Weathervane Is My Body

CoSign: Truck Violence Are Putting in the Work, You Should Too

Truck Violence, our latest CoSign, chat about their new album, The weathervane is my body, as well as poetry, DIY, and why most lyrics are bad.

Truck Violence: The weathervane is my body

Equal parts physical and emotional violence, birth is the most traumatic experience any person is likely to go through. On one end, a person’s body is subjected to the ravages of being impregnated with and then growing another human being from cell division to full infant size. The side effects of this are beyond gnarly. On the other, a person is literally ejected into the material world, taken from the peace and security of the womb and subject…

Truck Violence bets noise and folk can hold what political language cannot

The Montreal quartet Truck Violence built their second album the way they built their first: without outside money, a producer, or anyone who wasn’t already in the room. “The Weathervane Is My Body” is a self-produced record in the fullest sense — composed, recorded, mixed, and visually designed by the four people who perform it. What changed is the scale of what it is aimed at. Nine tracks and 31 minutes address climate catastrophe, the spread …