Asthma Kids release new single and video ahead of forthcoming EP
Ontario genre-agnostic duo Asthma Kids return with their new single Crumbs and Morsels (The Meek Are Getting Ready Pt IV), out now alongside the video from director Lisa Battocchio.
The track is the latest preview of their upcoming EP The Meek Are Getting Ready, out Dec. 1 via Dammit Distribution (EU/UK) and 2 Bar Town Records (North America).
Recorded in just three hours at The Reverie Recording Studio in Cavan-Monahagn, Crumbs and Morsels (…Pt IV) captures the band at their most urgent and unfiltered. The track was mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road Studios in London – a full-circle moment that frontman Trevor Hutchinson calls “a bucket-list thing.”
The song is a critique of wealth inequality, class division, and “the psychopathic imbalance of power” embedded in late-stage capitalism.
“The powers that be, the billionaires and their multi-millionaire minions, designed this whole thing,” says Hutchinson. “It’s in the uber-elite’s interest for us to fight each other, and they enjoy watching it. That type of grotesque wealth and all the human misery it creates can only be described as psychopathic. Crumbs and Morsels is me trying to explore that… while reminding myself that the revolution will still encourage dancing.”
The accompanying music video marks Asthma Kids’ second collaboration with Battocchio, who previously directed their video for Die On This Hill (…Pt II). Bringing her background in international film – originally from Italy, trained in China, now based in Canada – Battocchio creates a vivid, cinematic world that heightens both the urgency of the song and its rallying cry for unity. Featuring performer Lorenza Tessaro and filmed on the streets of downtown Toronto, the video embraces a raw, punk aesthetic: run-and-gun shots, hand-built masks, and a small but fearless crew bringing its chaotic vision to life.
“I look at videos as getting my song to be the soundtrack of someone else’s movie,” Hutchinson explains. “But what she did was magical. Her sense of lighting and mood is unreal. I’m so lucky I got to work with her.”
Based in Lindsay, ON, and formed by Hutchinson (Big Eddy, Trailer Park 5, Pardon Beggars) and JP Gill, Asthma Kids operate entirely outside genre lines – or as they put it, they’re “genre-atheists.”
“We leave labels for soup cans,” Hutchinson jokes. “We want three chords and the truth. Punk, freak-country, confessional post-pop… whatever. I need more diversity, not less, in music and in the world.
Asthma Kids will host a video release and pre-launch listening party for the new video and upcoming EP on Nov. 22 at LOLA in Toronto.
Crumbs and Morsels (…Pt IV) is available now on digital streaming platforms worldwide. For more information, please visit asthmakidsband.com.
