‘The weathervane is my body’ LP out June 26 on The Flenser. Canada’s Truck Violence howl through the harsh edges of hardcore and folk with an ending result that is both comforting and confrontational.

Their second full length record is an attempt to answer, an attempt at conciliation through refusal. Rooted in the noise rock and post-hardcore traditions, and steeped in a DIY ethic that runs deep in Canadian underground culture, LP is uncompromising in its refusal to be anything other than what it is: immediate, self-determined, and built entirely by the hands that imagined it. The album’s fierce, wildly expansive second single ‘Your name, It’s walking’ arrives alongside a music video directed by Kirill Sommer. This release is the product of that entire process. Every element reflects this. The group composition, the recording, the mixing and the visual media were all produced in house without outside intervention. DIY here is not an aesthetic choice or a marketing angle, it is the only honest option available. After relocating from the Alberta prairies to Montréal at just seventeen years old, Truck Violence guitarist and banjoist Paul Lecours and singer-poet Karsyn Henderson navigated the shift from rural life to the city. The two grew up in a small town of 600 people, graduating in a class of nine. By age fifteen they were running a local studio and radio station. There was no industry support, no infrastructure, no template for what they were trying to do, only the work itself and the conviction that it was worth doing. They drew influence from punk, shoegaze, and sludge, and their distinctive sound emerges from years of experimentation across multiple projects, each shaping their evolving sonic identity. Upon their move to Montreal, they were joined by Chris Clegg (bass) and Thomas Hart (percussion) and began building Truck Violence from the ground up.

Truck Violence, live:
Jun 27 Manchester, UK — Outbreak Festival
Jun 28 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK — Zerox
Jun 29 London, UK — Windmill Brixton
Jun 30 London, UK — Windmill Brixton
Jul 02 Roskilde, DK — Roskilde Festival
Jul 03 Montreuil, FR — Le Chinois
Jul 04 Ieper, BE — Ieper Fest
Jul 05 Rotterdam, NL — Vessel 11
Jul 07 Nottingham, UK — The Old Cold Store
Jul 08 Leeds, UK — Wharf Chambers
Jul 09 Withington, UK — 2000trees
Jul 10 Newport, UK — Le Pub

‘The weathervane is my body’ tracklist:

My dog would fuck the air
Jaundiced and reaching for a mother
Compelled by Christy
House caught fire
New Jesus
Your name, It’s walking
Stomach as a tower and the globules descending
Gerard, be quiet
Kindly, wash yourself

Photo by Matthew Van Dystadt-Aguiar