Partition - "Get Clean" | New Music

At long last, we have the "debut" single from Partition. Technically, the band has put out a demo and a live EP, but this is the first official single they've put out. Not only is it as wickedly unhinged as their shows, it brings news of a forthcoming debut album, Prodigal Gun.

Despite a sense of chaotic irreverence, "Get Clean" is about frontperson Taylor Nice's journey to do just that, get clean. Underneath a mask of outwardly tongue-in-cheek lyrics and chugging fuzz is a somewhat chronological progression from self-misanthropy ("Once upon a wasted space / and I'm a waste myself") to sobriety. It goes from, in Nice's own words, "making fun of my childhood trauma" to being a big middle finger "to all the people who [they] would be nothing more than a junkie." Stream the song below or get it on Bandcamp.

  

The video for "Get Clean" takes the title quite literally. Taylor is thrown into a kiddie pool by Seth and Evan (guitar and drums, respectively) and ends up eating Spaghetti-O's in the tub. As cheeky as the video is, it directly parallels the act of getting sober. One has to want to get sober themselves to actually make it happen, even as others are trying to force it upon them. 

Nice directed/edited the clip; it was shot by Billie Wolf.