Little Destroyer Deliver Menacing Femme-Rock Blitzer ‘Hitman’

LITTLE DESTROYER, the fierce, noisy alt-rock band making waves in their hometown of Vancouver just released their menacing new single ‘Hitman’ via Tiny Kingdom, an off-beat commentary on the harassment of women that still plagues today’s society.

The three-piece fills every room with as much energy, spit, and spectacle as humanly possible, and frontwoman Allie 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.

With its drilling guitar riffs and pummeling bassline, ‘Hitman’ underscores the group’s signature brooding, punk style. A powerful explosion of pent-up fury and suppressed emotional tension, the single validates feelings of rage attached to the daily experience of being alive.

Allie plunges through an addictive melody while cooly rolling off each lyric with nonchalant vocals. ‘Hitman’ transports listeners to a sonic landscape reminiscent of the volatile 00s pop-punk energy of The Kills and Yeah Yeah Yeahs whilst placing them alongside modern contemporaries such as Dream Wife and Amyl And The Sniffers.

About the track, she says: “Michael and Chris told me to write a story, so I wrote ‘Hitman’. For weeks, I had that recurring question in my head ‘does everybody want to hire one’? We had talked about making something that was simple, driving, and to the point, like a Sleaford Mods song. Kind of funny and satirical but also really kind of not, because shit, sometimes life tries to kill you. We’ve all felt sadness turn into rage, maybe while sitting on the curb outside the local liquor store. What do you do with a breaking point? I guess in our case, you write a song.”

The Canadian trio also dropped the action-jammed music video alongside the track. Continuing the narrative of the song, the video shrewdly balances reality with slap-stick comedy.

They say: “It was a no-brainer to do this video with Connor McGuire… we grew up together and were (very predictably) obsessed with Quentin Tarantino as teens – which felt a fitting starting point for HITMAN. Connor created a video that is balanced perfectly between mundane reality and something far more ‘cinematic’.”

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