Concrete Vehicles share new track, “Text Stop”

Speaking about the single, which is the second to follow the band’s 2025 album Station On The Hill, guitarist and vocalist Ben Lock says: “'Text Stop' was inspired by driving through very rural parts of Ontario and trying to imagine a life of a character that never left one of those towns - to attempt to have empathy with that situation and imagine looking back on your life, the dreams you could have seen through, but chose to stay comfortable.”

On the video, director Kit Baronas adds: “Taking inspiration from the retro sci-fi of the 1960s and ’70s, I sought to create a scenario that explores the textures of science fiction. The body laces with its environment, gradually losing its individuality as our cities become increasingly uniform. We follow the band, clad in black ski masks, as a group of revolutionaries. They plot in dark basements and pound the pavement while despotic structures loom overhead. Some of their bodies are coated in textures of silver, leaden grey beneath cloud-choked skies.”