Vampire Weekend’s Chris Tomson Shares New Dams of the West Video for New Song “Tell the Truth”: Watch

On February 24, Vampire Weekend’s Chris Tomson will release a solo project as Dams of the West. The album is called Youngish American, and it’s out via 30th Century Records/Columbia. Youngish American is produced by the Black Keys’ Patrick Carney, as well as Tomson and Roger Moutenot. The latest offering from the project is a new video for the new song “Tell the Truth.” Watch the Edward Bursch-directed video below.

Tomson shared a statement about the song and video:

“Tell the Truth,” to me, is a song about objectivity and/or the “blame America first” phenomenon. When I wrote the song, I believed that facts, at some future endpoint, would conquer all. But then last week the guy at my bodega told me we are now “living in a post-truth world” while looking at his Samsung Galaxy Stardust 8GB and selling me a sleeve of honey roasted peanuts so perhaps I was mistaken. Either way, the tune’s got a good beat and you can skank to it.

This video was inspired by the oppressive sense of paranoia that has come to define 2k16 for me.  I am fascinated by the way the most trivial bits of footage can be used as definitive proof that, say, a certain televangelist is a shape-shifting reptilian overlord or Hillary def has a malignant brain tumor.  While I’m not yet a political figure, I thought it would be a worthwhile exercise to see what a closer examination of my own actions might reveal. The results, as you can see, are provocative yet not entirely unexpected.

Watch Tomson with Vampire Weekend on Pitchfork.tv’s “Over/Under”:

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