Toronto post-punk act TRAITRS have unveiled their new song “Ghost and the Storm” yesterday.

The track comes with a music video directed by A Furniture Film Production. TRAITRS’ synth player Sean-Patrick Nolan said this about the visual, which can be seen below:

“The video pays homage to 'Rabbit In Your Headlights' by UNKLE, one of our all-time favourite songs and videos. It depicts the uneasy feeling of questioning your own sanity as it slowly slips away from you. We intentionally left it ambiguous as to who this troubled man is and what’s causing him to be so paranoid and erratic. We are our only connection to the outside world, so when the line between reality and fiction is gradually blurred and you start to feel ill at ease in our own mind and flesh, that’s a truly terrifying and isolating thing to experience. Vince Groulx did a great job of capturing that sense of foreboding paranoia while your emotions jump from one extreme to another. The human mind is more vulnerable and susceptible to these fluctuations than we realize."

TRAITRS vocalist Shawn Tucker said this about the song:

“Ghost and the Storm’ is exactly that - a ghost of a track. A forgotten spirit from our past. It was too ahead of its time for us to even know what to do with it at the time we wrote it, so it remained in anonymity for several years. believing your entire life that when you die you’ll go somewhere better but the reality is you just return to nothing, nowhere. To sleep and never remember your dreams is equivalent to how we die.”

“Ghost and the Storm” is the second single from the act’s forthcoming studio album Horses In The Abattoir, which comes out on November 17 on Freakwave Records. Pre-orders for the album can be made here. “Ghost and the Storm” is on digital services right now.