Uniform Track U.S. Mass Shootings in Powerful New “The Killing of America” Video: Watch

New York duo Uniform’s new album Wake in Fright is out today (via Sacred Bones). Along with the release, they have have shared the music video for the record’s “The Killing of America.” The visual presents a map of the United States, on which bright red dots chronologically signify every mass shooting that took place in the country last year. It’s inspired by Isao Hashimoto’s “1945-1998.” Watch it below.

In a press release, Uniform said:

Released to a limited audience in 1982, Leonard Schrader and Sheldon Renan’s documentary The Killing of America served to paint a stark portrait about the realities of gun violence in the United States at that time.

In the 35 years since the film’s inception, the statistics regarding firearm deaths in this country have not improved. Highly influenced by Isao Hashimoto’s piece on nuclear weapons titled “1945 – 1998,” our video intends to present basic figures surrounding a complicated subject. We do not wish to moralize and we offer no answers. Instead, we ask the viewer to use this data as an aid towards formulating their own conclusions.

Watch Uniform perform “Tabloid,” via Pitchfork.tv:

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