“Invalid Litter Dept.” by At the Drive In

"Invalid Litter Dept." comes off Relationship of Command, At the Drive-In's 2000 album on Grand Royal, and in March 2001 it went out as the record's third single, with British fans getting it spread across two CDs. Ross Robinson produced, Andy Wallace mixed and Chuck Johnson engineered, and the writing credit is split five ways among Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Omar Rodríguez-López, Jim Ward, Paul Hinojos and Tony Hajjar.

It's post-hardcore with a conscience and a target. The song and its video take on the Juárez femicides, the rapes and murders of young women who worked in the maquiladora factories of Ciudad Juárez, just across the border from the band's hometown of El Paso, Texas, and it lays into the federales, Mexico's federal police, for doing so little about them. In Britain it became their highest-charting single, reaching 50.

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