Fresh from putting out a split release with Jawbreaker Reunion earlier this year they are back with their debut full length, Ugly Cherries. A fair number of tracks have been unveiled in the previous weeks. ‘Dairy Queen‘ details plans for happiness/freedom/world domination to be set in motion once the narrator has finished their shower, while the title track confronts queerness head on with a clear-eyed defiance. The pick of the bunch is ‘West Texas’, where Hopkins and Bruce alternate verses to describe a variety of attempted escapes, all of which circle back to where they started – horribly, irrevocably in love.

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The latest track to be unveiled is ‘1994’, a throw back to the feel-good power-anthems of the early nineties. Once again however, the band mix this sense of fun with serious and personal lyrics, allowing for a song at once danceable and cryable:

“Haven’t seen your face since 1994
It feels like nothing
These days it pays to be so strange
And I’m like nothing”

Ugly Cherries is to be released on the 18th September. You can pre-order it now via Father/Daughter Records and Miscreant Records. The band are also heading out on tour for those of you in the US. See the full dates below (* indicates with Mitski, # are with Mitski and Palehound):

09/18 @ Silent Barn – Brooklyn, NY (Record release w/ Charly Bliss, Fern Mayo, Kississippi)
10/14 @ Aurora – Providence, RI (w/ S featuring Jenn Ghetto of Carissa’s Weird)
10/31 @ Shea Stadium – Brooklyn, NY (w/ Joanna Gruesome, Aye Nako, King of Cats)
11/10 @ PhilaMOCA – Philadelphia, PA *
11/11 @ DC9 – Washington, DC *
11/12 @ Southern Cafe – Charlottesville, VA #
11/13 @ Pinhook – Durham, NC #
11/14 @ Caledonia Lounge – Athens, GA #
11/16 @ The High Watt – Nashville, TN #
11/17 @ Bishop Bar – Bloomington, IN #
11/18 @ The Frequency – Madison, WI #
11/19 @ 7th Street Entry – Minneapolis, MN #
11/20 @ Beat Kitchen – Chicago, IL #
11/21 @ Rumba Cafe – Columbus, OH #
11/23 @ Smiling Buddha – Toronto, ON #
11/24 @ Casa Del Popolo – Montreal, QC #
11/25 @ BSP Lounge – Kingston, NY #

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“Over Easy is an album by and for people too old to be kids but too young to be capital-A Adults, where relationships are dictated by your presence or absence at shows, boredom is seen as the ultimate evil and growing up looms like some nightmare threatening to come real”

The New Paltz duo are back with a new double A-side seven-inch. ‘Sleep Talk’ is a kind of post-post-breakup song, with lead Alex Luciano opening with some self-deprecating statements (“I can’t play instruments very well, and I eat all of your cereal/But i’ll never be a smoker ’cos, the second cigarette makes me feel like shit), before imagining going to the home of her ex’s new girlfriend and telling her everything. This segues into nostalgic reminiscing for the doomed relationship (“I’m getting coffee by myself, but I still know how you like yours”) before the final declaration/threat which turns an awkward situation into a rather complex one:

“If I told you I loved you,
I don’t know who
it would scare away faster”

Second track ‘Dinner Date’ will be unveiled in August, and the seven-inch will be released on the 18th September by Father/Daughter Records and Art is Hard Records.

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