Little Destroyer, the fierce, noisy alt-rock band making waves in their hometown of Vancouver have released another hooky single and video aptly titled “love and anarchy” via Tiny Kingdom. Produced by Howard Redekopp (Mother Mother, Tegan and Sara, The New Pornographers), “love and anarchy” is a brutally honest reflection on navigating love and relationships. Directed by Wayne Moreheart, the video is an homage to The Undertones x Ramones videos and features the 3-piece performing at a dingy bar surrounded by the quirky antics of a bunch of wild pals.
Says Little Destroyer’s frontperson Allie Sheldan, “I think love as a liberator is a radical idea because so much of our learned behaviour around love is to be possessive, scared, insecure. There’s a big difference between conditional and unconditional. As somebody who’s always had a really complicated relationship with relationships, it took crashing head first into a rock bottom before I did the work to learn how to love unconditionally. This song is a thank you to, and celebration of, the people (and person) who helped me get there, and still be here.”
Little Destroyer breezily channels the volatile 00s pop-punk energy of seminal bands like The Kills and Yeah Yeah Yeahs whilst placing them alongside modern contemporaries such as Dream Wife and Amyl And The Sniffers. A powerful sonic explosion of pent-up fury and suppressed emotional tension led by Sheldan’s dynamic onstage presence, the band cemented its reputation for putting on killer live performances during their Lemmon Stage showcase at the El Mocambo during this year’s Canadian Music Week.
The three piece fills every room with as much energy, spit and spectacle as humanly possible, and Sheldan speaks unapologetically on feminism and empowerment. Allie, along with brothers Chris and Michael Weiss, are multi-instrumentalists who grew up playing in punk, psych, and rock and roll bands, later venturing into alt-pop, inspired by Soulwax Night Versions & Charli XCX. Here for a good time and apparently also for a long time, even after a number of particularly crushing years of blow after blow from the music industry, they’re still happily grinding away. Their previous single “Alpha” has been streamed over 1.8M times, with fan-made videos on YouTube exceeding 2.4 million views. Little Destroyer has played several notable festivals including SXSW, The Great Escape, Tallinn Music Week, FIMPRO, JUNOfest, CMW, Rifflandia, Westward Festival, Sled Island, and opened for Against Me, Mother Mother, and Dear Rouge.
