Rundown Kreeps Release New Video And Single ‘Held Down’

My Grito, the new LatinX based project from the team at Wiretap Records, have announced the signing of Los Angeles ska punk trio Rundown Kreeps. The band’s label debut is the single ‘Held Down‘ that was recorded by Jonathan Mireles and mastered by Less Than Jake‘s Roger Lima. ‘Held Down‘ is now available via digital service providers and is the first track to be taken from the band’s forthcoming, as yet still untitled, full length that is due out later this year.

‘Held Down‘ can be streamed via Amazon Music, Apple Music and Spotify

You can check out the ‘Held Down‘ video below

Held Down discusses the self-reflection of daily paranoia through the eyes of a Chicano living in Los Angeles during 2020. The lyrics glide over the topics of racism, social status, gentrification, death, and self-awareness in a borderline stoic manner. Sometimes resolution is inexistent, until you learn to be untroubled without it. We figured that in times of quarantine, we’d do what we’ve always done. Which to us meant to do it ourselves. So, with a DIY mentality, we chose to shoot, direct, and edit our own music video. It felt almost necessary to do it as a three-person production during the pandemic. Our only true goals were to film something that no other band has done so far, make it feel as bizarre as the lyrics, and to have fun in the process of doing so. I’ve personally always loved B-Movies so the making of Held Down’s music video was an extremely satisfying creative process for me. We hope that people enjoy this release as much as we enjoyed creating it.