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Places Erupt’s first single, “Bloggers,” is about online trolling

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45’s first single, “Bloggers,” is about online trolling.

The video (made possible thanks to a FACTOR grant we received last year) depicts a character who shies away from expressing his extreme political beliefs face to face with people, just to go home and rant at nauseam online – unhinged and uninhibited. It was filmed by Pedja Milosavljevic of Balkanada, an independent production house.

Visualize orchestral music, rock, shoegaze and post-punk swirling about in a tornado and us at its centre, flanked by defiant, dancing black swans. We are Places Erupt – a tempestuous sextet who revel in our contrasts. Our forthcoming 45 EP both lashes out and laughs at the terrifying times in which we are currently living in. Its lyrical content covers everything from Tinder to tourists to trolling, returning time and again to the villain at the centre of our current collective nightmare – the 45th president of the United States of America.

Watch the premiere of “Bloggers” over at: http://canadianbeats.ca/2018/05/22/premiere-places-erupt-release-video-for-bloggers

The political beliefs that the character espouses and those of the people he encounters in public are purposefully vague. The buttons that co-workers and passersby wear are yellow and blue, while the main character has a poster at home that’s purple and orange (the exact opposites of yellow and blue). The colours symbolize a polarity of political opinions that exist between him and everyone else. We didn’t want the buttons to represent a particular issue – rather, we wanted the focus to be on the phenomenon of trolling, where people shirk away from expressing their political opinions unless they’re under the safe shield of cyber anonymity. It’s become a terrifying and unhealthy side effect of the internet, poisoning discourse and breeding hate.

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Tour Dates
June 9 @ Junction City Music Hall (“Bloggers” release show) – Toronto, ON

June 15 @ Church of St. John the Evangelist (Cinquefoil Series) – Hamilton, ON

Places Erupt's first single, “Bloggers,” is about online trolling

Places Erupt's first single, “Bloggers,” is about online trolling

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