The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus released their sixth album ‘X’s For Eyes’ via Better Noise Music on October 3rd, along with latest single ‘Perfection.’ Against the track’s intense driving rhythm and a big, urgent melody, lead vocalist, guitarist, and founding member Ronnie Winter sings “Whatever won’t break can make us” with his signature wide-ranging voice. Now, they’ve released the song’s evocative video ahead of their two performances at the When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas as part of the band’s nationwide tour.
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus has teamed up once again with director Shane Drake (Panic! At The Disco, Paramore), who was behind the camera lens for the ‘False Pretense’ and ‘Your Guardian Angel’ videos from the band’s 2006 double-Platinum debut album ‘Don’t You Fake It’.
“What’s really exciting is that we basically rebuilt the same team for ‘X’s for Eyes’ that we had when we made ‘Don’t You Fake It’”, says frontman Ronnie Winter. “A lot of the people who were behind the scenes back then–working on things like A&R, mixing, track sequencing, artwork and now videos–have come back together, nearly 20 years later, to be part of this new album. It feels like a reunion in the best possible way. If you were a fan of ‘Don’t You Fake It’, we think you’re going to really love this album”.
In the ‘Perfection’ video, the viewer meets five diverse characters, each of whom are deemed part of society’s marginalized outcasts and who fit neither traditional western nor typical emo cultures, each isolated with X’s painted over their eyes. They are a trans truck mechanic, a disabled rodeo dreamer, an indigenous goth, a queer runaway, and a plus-size punk cowgirl. They’re mysteriously summoned by divine flyers featuring the band’s Alliance logo, which glows with warm light when they touch it, and they immediately realize that they’ve been called to a special performance by the band. There they experience collective awakening, as they simultaneously open their eyes and the X’s disappear, and they discover their chosen family.