Video: Plague Vendor, ‘New Comedown’

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Plague Vendor (Photo by Robert Hickerson)
Plague Vendor (Photo by Robert Hickerson)

Plague Vendor, the unrelenting SoCal garage-punk quartet whose live shows could probably strip paint, have announced their third full-length album “By Night,” which arrives June 7 via Epitaph. Following up on 2016’s “BLOODSWEAT,” the band locked in for an 11-day session with Grammy-winning producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Sharon Van Etten, Chelsea Wolfe) at L.A.’s storied EastWest Studios. Now they lead the charge with the blistering new single “New Comedown” and a video to boot.

The stylish-if-not-straightforward Dan Monick-directed clip exhibit the quartet in their typically fanatical dedication to musicianship. It’s an uncanny level of focus that makes you wonder when the smoke will start billowing from their ears. That is, if frenetic frontman Brandon Blaine’s fancy footwork hasn’t mesmerized you first. “New Comedown” comes as no surprise and fits squarely in the lexicon of Plague Vendor’s special brand of darkly tinged tunes. A taught rhythm section, buzz-saw guitars and a heavy dousing of Blaine like an auditory cobra — spitting venom, etching his lyrics into your eardrums.

||| Watch: The video for “New Comedown”

||| Live: Plague Vendor play the Sabroso Festival in Dana Point on April 6-7. Tickets.

||| Previously: “Locomotive”