Canadian rock and roll trio The Dirty Nil have posted the video for ‘No Weaknesses’. Premiered via Noisey, the track will feature on the band’s debut album, ‘Higher Power’, due on the 26th February via Dine Alone Records.
The release follows their Fat Wreck Chords 7″, released last year. “Thinking of how I came to listen to punk growing up, that wasn’t in my sphere of punk,” bassist and co-vocalist Dave Nardi told Noisey of their relationship with the label. “I started as a classic rock kid. So I naturally found more of the 70s New York punk—The Ramones, Television. So this new wave of modern liberty spikes, it didn’t jive for me, except for, again, playing Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and ‘Stickin’ in My Eye’ came on and you’d say, “Oh, this is a sick song to do a grind to.””
“The notion of calling yourself a punk band is a bit loaded for me,” guitarist and co-vocalist Luke Bentham goes on to say in the interview. “To me, it carries with a certain badge of distinction that, unless you’re an unmistakably punk band, it’s a little bit of a pat on the back to be like, “Yeah we’re a punk band. We don’t give a fuck.” It’s not really for me to say.”