Watch Rawls Royce's 'Woe, Toronto' Video

(FTS) Ahead of their upcoming debut full-length album, Rawls Royce has just released a new single, "Woe, Toronto" - via Steady Riot Records, along with a music video.

"Woe, Toronto" explores Toronto's history of class conflict, political violence, and anti-fascist organizing in the 1930s. Though the song and the rest of the record deal with events from nearly a century ago, their themes remain relevant today.

"This is a song about the many struggles of living in Toronto, told through the lens of the malaise of the Great Depression era," says the band. "Not unlike today, the 1930s were a period of widespread disillusionment with the political, social and economic conditions of the city. The protagonist dreams of running away to Spain to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War. However, the Mackenzie-King government passed the Foreign Enlistment Act in 1937 making it illegal to do so."

Alongside the single, Rawls Royce has released a video filmed and edited by ToeKnee Radavoi. The video layers historical footage of Toronto from the 1920s and '30s over clips of the band performing.

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