Dine Alone MusicAlexisonfire will be donating over $11,000 in proceeds from their single “Complicit” in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
“[‘Complicit’] is about wanting to be an ally to people fighting for equality but at the same time, recognizing that regardless of how pure our intentions may be, we are complicit,” the Canadian rockers write in a statement. “We have benefited from a system that is inherently stacked in our favor: a system of racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia.”
In acknowledging that the “first step of recognition is meaningless without action,” Alexisonfire is giving the $11,843.84 the band earned from “Complicit” to Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Black Lives Matter Toronto and Black Youth Pathway to Industry.
“The five members of this band stand steadfast, yet imperfect, in our commitment to be better allies,” the statement reads. “Smash the pillars of the white hetero patriarchy until the ruins are sand.”
Alexisonfire dropped “Complicit” in May 2019. It followed the single “Familiar Drugs,” which marked the band’s first new song in nearly 10 years.
By Josh Johnson
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