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The MTA stars in their music videos for “Gen-X Cops” and “Capricorn.”
The New York rockers have returned with two singles from their upcoming fifth album, Only God Was Above Us — coupled with two music-video odes to the MTA. Both “Gen-X Cops” and “Capricorn” come with visuals inspired by 1980s MTA cars, carrying over a theme from the album cover, a 1988 photo by Steven Siegel from a subway “graveyard.” The singles themselves aren’t exactly transit anthems, but the jarring, distorted guitars in both don’t sound unlike the screeching of an MTA car. The ten-track Only God Was Above Us is out April 5, and also includes titles like “Ice Cream Piano,” “Prep-School Gangsters,” and “Mary Boone.” In other words, it’s also the band’s return to New York iconography after the jammy FOTB.
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