Track Premiere: Suiting Up with Watertank’s “The Ejector Side”

With a history that clocks back to 2003, that France’s Watertank are only now setting up the pins to issue their third full-length might indicate that this lot has been wheezing and limping along when others have been hitting rails off the lips of energy drinks. But the band has been plagued by shaky membership and lineup woes to go along with the insistence of a creative skin shedding with each release. September 4th will see the release of Silent Running, the third and latest departure for the Nantes-based quartet who have been labelled everything from heavy doom to post-hardcore to post-metal to alternative rock to metalgaze. Thusly, it should come as little surprise that Silent Running doesn’t sit still in its incorporation of a new inspirations as the album welcomes healthy doses of the ’90s and the tali beads and baggy khakis of short-haired superheroes like Quicksand, Jawbox, Far and Failure into the album’s ten tracks, including “The Ejector Slide,” which we are premiering below.

Says vocalist/guitarist, Thomas Boutet about the song in today’s spotlight:

“This one is about being maintained in a climate of fear, on the verge of something terrible, letting things slip out of control. On the upside, it’s also a homage to the pioneer spirit, pushing our limits further with little consideration for the tragic consequences.”

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