“‘Saliva’ isn’t about skateboarding, it isn’t about fucking. It’s about conscience,” said Canadian punk outfit Chastity’s Brandon Williams when releasing the track earlier this month. “Over the summer as it’s been played it’s become less and less about me, and become more about anyone who has been spat in the face by someone who may not even have the conscience to realise.”
Premiered at Toronto’s Videofag exhibition space, the film depicts an interracial homosexual couple kissing in-front of a backdrop of violence. “The song, accompanied by video, is about conscientiousness, it’s a staring contest with ignorance and it isn’t about to blink,” Videofag comment. “It’s discomfort for those given no reason to feel uncomfortable in the first place. It hopes to be a getting out of the way of inherited or old ignorance. Ambitious, it hopes to be an opportunity for compassion, for individual and social progress and awakening. It’s two boys kissing.”
‘Saliva’ will be available on tape via Hand Drawn Dracula on 13th November 2015. Chastity will be playing Mutations Festival in Brighton with the likes of Lightning Bolt, METZ and Ought on the 28th and 29th November.