Video: Cuffed Up, ‘Bonnie’

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Cuffed Up (Photo by Ana Karotkaya)

“Bonnie” may be Cuffed Up’s most combustible song yet, a high-speed missile launched at toxic relationships that sounds like what would have happened had Silversun Pickups gone full-on post-punk, lived recklessly and had a really angry Ben Gibbard guest on the vocals.

It’s the latest single from the L.A. quartet’s second EP, “Asymmetry,” out Oct. 22 via Royal Mountain Records (Alvvays, Wild Pink, METZ). The band — Ralph Torrefranca, Sapphire Jewell, Joe Liptock and Victor Ordonez — worked with producer Brad Wood (Touché Amoré, Smashing Pumpkins, Liz Phair) on the EP.

Torrefranca and Jewell swap vocals on “Bonnie” — and they swap roles in the video, directed by Torrefranca. They call the song an “anti-love anthem on the grief and pitfalls of a serious relationship crumbling due to lies and deceit.”

The song, the band adds, explores that poison “through the eyes of Bonnie (of Bonnie & Clyde fame), in an alternative universe where Clyde selfishly leaves Bonnie for dead. Bonnie is arrested and she decides to give Clyde up to the cops out of pure spite. Not because he left her in a dangerous situation — purely because of the end of their romantic, albeit toxic relationship.”

It makes for some fine his-n-hers rock theater.

||| Watch: The video for “Bonnie”

||| Live: Cuffed Up opens for the Joy Formidable on Nov. 30 at the Roxy. Tickets.

||| Previously: “Canaries,” “Danger, Danger,” “French Exit,” “Mother/Father”