Video: Irontom, ‘Con Artist’

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Irontom (Photo by Amalia Irons)

Hard-riffing, heavy-hitting Irontom make oxygen for fans who breathe grandiosity and swagger. Their music comes with plenty of attitude, at times deadly serious and at others dripping with sarcasm.

Though decidedly stream-of-consciousness, Irontom’s pounding new single “Con Artist” leans toward the latter — though vocalist Harry Hayes is coy on specifics. (Or he simply thumbs his nose at the convention of dishing out quotations about the band’s songs.)

“We wrote this song when we were on an 80-day starvation retreat where we ate nothing but fizzy water and Jif creamy smooth peanut butter,” Hayes says. “The retreat had this elegant smoking lounge where a man of the height of 7-foot-2 would come in and yell out ‘mother figure!’ and ‘student body!’ We took these as the beginning lyrics. This gentle giant told us about his days of robbing the homeless in Guadalajara. He would say, ‘Don’t rob the people, rob the people who ROB the people.’”

“Con Artist” is the band first solo venture since their 2020 album, “Cult Following,” though they did collaborate with Dreamers on “Don’t Go Dark” early this year. Irontom — Hayes, ace guitarist Zach Irons and drummer Dylan Williams — has another full-length on the way later this year, though no details are available yet.

The video for the new track is directed by Amalia Irons, flashing from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery with the Grim Reaper to Bodega Bay where Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ was filmed. Subliminal messages? Consider that while enjoying a spoonful of Jif.

||| Watch: The video for “Con Artist”

||| Previously: “Don’t Go Dark” (with Dreamers), “Cult Following,” “Full Moon,” “Big Shot,” “Be Bold Like Elijah,” “The Minista”