Having previously released the tracks ‘DBT’ and ‘Pencils’, Bristol garage-rock band HOLY POPES are slated to release their self-titled debut album on January 27th on Man Demolish Records.

Coinciding with the news, HOLY POPES have also unleashed the video for their new single ‘Jerry’. Self-directed, cheeky clips of the band mates goofing around a house. Whilst the video may be quite fun in tone, the content of the song itself deals with those who are easily swayed due to the lack of critical thinking. You can watch ‘Jerry’ down below.

Touching on the track, HOLY POPES’ guitarist Dominic Knight mentioned:

“Jerry is a person we may or may not know. Someone who was swayed by misinformation, who didn’t know the consequences or particularly think about them. Jerry meant well, but maybe without an idea of who for. Politics has been deeply polarised and the right have gained a foothold not seen across the world for many many years. So many people get caught up in the lies and misinformation coercively spread by propaganda; perfectly kind, decent folks are accidentally becoming bigots.

I like to hold the idea in my heart that we are all compassionate beings, and that it’s our duty to show empathy and kindness to those we may agree with the least. I once had a conversation with a guy in the pub about Brexit, and we disagreed in a big way, but he was a thoughtful, loving man who just didn’t understand the wider implications of his vote, and I didn’t want to hold anything against him. The language around migration, around control, around human rights, it all comes from a place of hatred and othering. We have the space, we have the land, we have the houses and we have the wealth…it is just distributed in the wrong way, by the wrong people.”