New Music From Pissed Jeans
- Written by Marky Edison
Pennsylvanian noisemakers Pissed Jeans release their fifth LP through Subpop in February. Matt Korvette and co. have been churning out their brand of post-hardcore since the mid-noughties and Why Love Now promises to continue in a similar vein.
Korvette, Brad Fry (guitar), Randy Huth (bass) and Sean McGuinness (drums) met in school and have been terrorising audiences and eardrums ever since.
No Wave legend Lydia Lunch shacked up in Philadelphia to produce Why Love Now alongside local metal legend Arthur Rizk. “I knew she wasn’t a traditional producer,” Korvette says of Lunch. “I like how she’s so cool and really intimidating. She ended up being so fucking awesome and crazy. She was super into it, constantly threatening to bend us over the bathtub. I’m not really sure what that entails, but I know she probably wasn’t joking.”
Lunch and Rizk helped to mould what Korvette has described as “the musical equivalent to watching a toilet flush.” Their last album, Honeys, was described by Musos’ Guide as “what hardcore punk sounds like in the 21st century.”
They have just released the first song from the album, ‘The Bar Is Low’. With some deliberate irony, the track sets the bar high for February’s release.
Listen to ‘The Bar Is Low’ here
The tracklisting for Why Love Now is;
1. Waiting On My Horrible Warning
2. The Bar Is Low
3. Play
4. Ignorecam
5. Cold Whip Cream
6. Love Without Emotion
7. I'm A Man
8. (Won't Tell You) My Sign
9. It's Your Knees
10. Worldwide Marine Asset Financial Analyst
11. Have You Ever Been Furniture
12. Activia
13. Not Even Married
Order the album here
