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Ohio indie-punk band Equipment is back, sharing a single from their next record, which will be titled Alt. 

Alt will release on Sept. 29 on the band's own Klepto Phase record label, with the first single "LO/FO" shared below.

The band's Nick Zander explains:

"We always knew we wanted to do a video for this song. I had a couple vague ideas that sounded really silly -- like the synchronized birdwatching, or dressing all white like a boy band -- but we weren't able to expand upon any  single idea in a deep way. We ended up spending the summer filming a few takes of the song for every funny idea we had, like, quantity-over-quality style. Filming the video was basically 80% hanging out and 20% "oh yeah we should probably do that video now," so we'd change into our goofy outfits and get a few takes. It looks like we're having fun in the video because that's pretty much all we did, we just turned the camera on long enough to capture it.

We shot it over two months with probably 5 or so full days of filming. I live in Denver now so I tried to ration my visits back to Toledo just enough to be able to play a few shows and get things like this video done. It probably cost less than $100 to film because we did most of it ourselves. I say that as if we had money to not do it ourselves, lol. I got to know my Sony mirrorless camera quite well, and spent probably a couple dozen hours on Adobe Premiere. Prop shopping involved using weird stuff we already had, screwing around at the dollar store, and we may or may not have participated in the ol' buy-and-return trick for a couple things.

The new record also showcases a new new lineup, including guitarist Jacob Scott (They/them), bassist Ellie Hart (they/them), and drummer Jake Pachasa (he/him).