Talk Show Host Release New Single & Video ‘Blood In The Sand’

Toronto power-pop punk trio Talk Show Host will release Mid-Century Modern, their debut full-length, on June 4th via Wiretap Records & Disconnect Disconnect Records. Mid-Century Modern is an album that declares its love for ’90s punk, larger than life guitars, catchy pop melodies and indie rock detours. It is the sound of a band that has taught themselves all the tricks in the power-pop playbook and left notes in the margins. The lead single, Blood In The Sand, is now streaming everywhere, along with a brand new music video.

“The video has nothing to do with the song and everything to do with the fact that we are still under lockdown and all we have footage of is cats. Sincere apologies to all the dog persons.It started life as a surf-inspired track but we couldn’t resist the ever-present urge to turn it into a power-pop singalong. The lyrics recount the plot of a non-existent delinquent teen movie I dreamed about during a full moon, something from the mid-to-late 60s that could’ve been directed by Al Adamson or Ray Dennis Steckler. The title doesn’t sound like what the song sounds like, but it was the name of the picture in the dream. We might have destroyed the fabric of space & time if we’d changed it, y’know?”

You can stream Blood In The Sand here