Nashville’s Free Throw share “Down & Out”, the latest single to be released from their upcoming album ‘Piecing It Together’, produced by Will Yip (Bartees Strange, The Menzingers, Tigers Jaw) and out June 25th on Triple Crown Records.
Directed by Michael Herrick, the video takes place in the same Free Throw Video Universe (FTVU) as the recently released video for “Cloud Sick”, playing the part of the stolen VHS tape that the band were driving around Nashville looking for when we last saw them. As it starts, we see Free Throw pop the tape into the tube TV on the set of the public access show where the “Cloud Sick” video ended, and are transported to an open field at night where the band play around a bonfire as their friends slowly grow it by tossing objects into the flames.
“Down & Out”, as lead vocalist Cory Castro explains, “is a song about the in-between of depression and recovery—that point where it’s hard to get out of bed but you know you are working your way towards it.” The visual in the video manifests a similar feeling of being on the brink of a breakthrough, letting go of the past as the growing flames building to the inevitable dawn will bring the light of the sun.
Watch Down & Out here.