In about one month, Milwaukee screamo champions Snag will release All The Cages Holding Us Will One Day Turn To Dust, their first album for the great Deathwish label. I have heard All The Cages..., and there's a whole lot of jagged passion at work on that record. You might've heard some of it in lead single "Debilitated," and you might hear more of it in album opener "Unarrest Me."
"Unarrest Me" opens with the kind of winding, proggy guitar line that you might hear on a late-'90s emo record, before the song explodes into something more frantically angry. The lyrics vividly describe a bad situation: "Wrists tied and I’m panicking! Face down and I’m panicking! 'Cut your hair, man, it’s getting too long,' whispered the pig as I hit the ground!"
In a press release, singer/guitarist Samm Szymborski says that the song is "a POV of a wrongful arrest — the confusion, the panic, and the sheer inhuman reaction from the arrester. This song musically tells an eerie story within itself. It sets off on a journey and ends abruptly at its peak."
Snag co-directed the "Unarrest Me" video with Samer Ghani, and it shows a group of friends getting together to prevent one such arrest. Singer/bassist Peter Murphy (not the Bauhaus guy) says, "The concept for the video is ‘collective liberation through mutual aid.’ The symbols of zip ties and blindfolds against flashlights and sprints put a finer point on the idea that every free person can help free another person." Check it out below.
All The Cages Holding Us Will One Day Turn To Dust is out 7/10 on Deathwish, Inc.
