Hot Garbage Get Weird With Sook-Yin Lee In Their New “SPUN” Video
The Toronto psych-noise outfit’s icy new visual sees Sook-Yin Lee creeping through a darkly surreal version of the city.
by Glenn Alderson
Photo by Das Gupta
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Toronto psych-noise wrecking crew Hot Garbage officially gave us the bug. But honestly, we’re not looking for a cure. RANGE is excited to premiere the band’s chaotic and strangely beautiful new video for “SPUN,” featuring our May digital cover star Sook-Yin Lee wandering the frozen streets of Toronto as “The Bug.”
Directed by the band’s Dylan Gamble, the video feels like a grimy midnight transmission from another dimension. Sook-Yin crawls through icy alleyways, brutalist corridors, and snow-covered cityscapes while Hot Garbage soundtrack the journey with blown-out basslines, wiry Sonic Youth-inspired guitar chaos, and a relentless five-beat pulse that does not give up.
There’s something perfectly fitting about seeing Sook-Yin at the centre of this world. Equal parts art-school nightmare and late-night Toronto fever dream, “SPUN” captures the same fearless weirdness that has made both Hot Garbage and Sook-Yin such enduring underground icons in Canadian culture.
The single arrives via our favourite Montreal imprint Mothland and continues Hot Garbage’s evolution into one of the country’s most exciting live bands. Their recent set at SXSW only further proved they’re a group capable of turning motorik grooves and goth textures into something dark, hazy, and genuinely unpredictable.
So yeah, Hot Garbage gave us the bug. And after one watch of “SPUN,” you probably won’t mind catching it either.
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