Clothing releases “Tóxico Saico”

Today, Mexico City-based artist Clothing, aka Santi Ropa, shares 'Toxico Saico', a new single from their debut album La Muerte en Realidad no Existe ahead of a March 28th release on Tin Angel. Inspired by personal trauma, and Ropa’s own experience of growing up queer either side of the US-Mexico border in the era of Trump, the album is an intimate, heart-rending Bildungsroman disguised as a fantastical, gunslinging cowboy epic.

A heart-breaking 50s-inspired serenade, 'Toxico Saico' finds Ropa crooning "Toxic Psycho, my dear, it’s best you let me go, idiot, gayboy, self-centred clown, it’s best you let me go" over dancing accordion and gently tumbling instrumentation. Of the track, Ropa explains: "This is a painfully honest song that deals with the blurred line between love and hate. No one is spared—only those you love the most can really hurt you."

Watch the video for 'Toxico Saico' - directed by Isa Espi and Santiago Muedano - here: