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Toledo-based emo band Equipment continues to impress us with the release of their latest single, "Minnow." The rapid-fire, twinkly track off the band's upcoming LP Alt.Account, out September 29, is a fiery, shout-along piece framed with energetic guitar action and smooth, melodic vocals. It comes with a video that features Zander in split screen, re-creating footage he published to YouTube as a kid.

The track highlights Zander's unabashed vulnerability, the noodle-iest of guitars, and angsty syncopation, providing a brief glimpse into a period of time when he tried desperately hard to be a cool young adult. Later in the song, recordings of a 12-year-old vocalist and guitarist Nick Zander plug the YouTube channel he started in 2008, once again sampling his childhood self on the Ohio emo band's highly-anticipated new album.

"The chorus is from the perspective of an omniscient narrator, analyzing my current state in life," shares Zander. "It speaks to the many different versions of ourselves we can be in a lifetime and paints a picture of how far one can go from starting an innocent retro gaming channel to falling victim to the "party" culture in less than a decade. The YouTube kid was so much cooler."

The accompanying music video is a sweet visual that features Zander in a split screen, re-creating footage he published to YouTube as a kid. "This video features a bunch of recreated footage from a few YouTube channels I had as a kid, as well as a recreated drum playthrough by Jake. Some of the videos were literally from when I was 10. It was super fun to recreate these shots around the house with my partner. We wanted to go for that homemade feel like the old videos, complete with the bad lighting and all. While making this, we would get to a scene we'd have to reshoot, and I'd be like, "I can't believe kid me committed to the bit this hard."

The upcoming record is a statement-making collection of self-deprecating and hopeful anthems for the digital generation. It is destined to take them from DIY legends to emo's next breakout band to watch.

Check out Equipment's latest single, "Minnow," today!