Western Addiction have released a video for "They Burned Our Paintings" off Frail Bray, which drops on May 15th through Fat Wreck Chords.

Working for the first time with producer Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Jeff Rosenstock, Gouge Away), Western Addiction tracked Frail Bray live to tape—another first for them—at the Atomic Garden in Oakland, CA.

Check out what vocalist Jason Hall had to say about writing this shredder below.

This was the last song written for the record, and we were pleasantly surprised by the outcome. It's a straight-forward ripper with the structure of a classic country-western, 50s rock and roll song, and it even features some Moog. Darius from Swingin' Utters played tambourine because, surprisingly, that instrument is so damn hard to play correctly. I tried my best to interject melody throughout this record instead of barking like a lunatic all the time. The song is a manifesto for better living, the threat of hope, and aggressive positivity. I encourage everyone to be bold about making this world a better place.

"They Burned Our Paintings" is about degenerate art in the 1920s and 30s, so it made perfect sense the video would be set in a gallery. We chose to shoot at the renowned 111 Minna Gallery because it was important to showcase the live portion of our video in a space that supports art in San Francisco, which is becoming rare. The band loves and follows art. I am by no means a studied art-historian but I find it calming to walk the museums of SF, especially the Legion of Honor. I love everything about the art scene, the gross, and the grand, and it baffles me as to what catches the cultural wind and what doesn't. I feel that when the band slows down, I'll start painting again. The images in the video are from artists featured in the world's most famous exhibition in Munich in 1937. My favorite pieces are from Hans Richter, and I also like Oskar Schlemmer, the Bauhaus artist.