Cleo Reed Announces New EP Is This How Empires Die?

The political and socioeconomic issues that Cleo Reed sang about on their 2025 album Cuntry are still plaguing the U. S. In an upcoming EP Is This How Empires Die.

the musician continues to examine the life of the queer and working class in America. The record, out December 4, includes lead single, “American Dream,“ along with a video filmed at the Demery Family Rodeo in Oklahoma on the Fourth of July.

In it, Reed questions American policy, surveillance, and patriotism across a landscape that juxtaposes scenes of Black youth playing, with and patriotism across a landscape that juxtaposes scenes of Black youth playing, with closing shots of the singer’s silhouette backdropped by flames.

Watch the film below. “‘American Dream’ is my anti-anthem, like the panic after waking up from a bad dream in a cold sweat,” Reed explained in a press statement.

I wrote the song for the hypothetical day when I’m celebrating the 4th of July and then the storm comes. This is a moment of waking from the perfect dream. Face reality.”.

Cleo Reed, Foto de Adam Davis As questões políticas e socioeconômicas que Cleo Reed cantou em seu álbum 2025, Cuntry, ainda assombram o U.