NYC’s resident misfits Couch Slut’s new full-length album You Could Do It Tonight is out April 19, 2024 on Brutal Panda Records. Today, the band shares the official lyric video for “The Donkey (Abridged).” The video was created by Frank Huang (Maximum Volume Silence) and features additional footage captured by occasional Couch Slut collaborator Davindar Singh from a haunted house in Thailand, along with special guest appearances from guitarist Amy Mills’ personal doll collection.
Couch Slut vocalist Megan Ostrosits explains: “Here’s the story of what happened when my friends and I got fired from the haunted waterpark.” Bassist Kevin Hall continues: “‘The Donkey’ is simultaneously simple and complex, like a bucket of sewage which at first appears homogeneous, but upon close inspection dazzles the mind and the senses with the diversity and pungency of its constituent detritus.”
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Couch Slut have played a veritable strain of drug-fueled, incendiary noise rock since 2013. Led by Megan Osztrosits’ infernal roar and subversive, vitriolic lyrics, the quintet returns with their fourth full-length opus You Could Do It Tonight, just in time for America’s only holiday that matters…4/20.
Recorded amidst the filth of NYC with Uniform’s Ben Greenberg (Drab Majesty, Portrayal of Guilt, Metz) and mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios in London (Blur, Nick Cave, Thom Yorke), Couch Slut subverts the paradigm and ups the ante in every imaginable way across nine vignettes of perverse, true-to-life storytelling layered over the band’s singular, dragged-through-the-mud songcraft. This is a depraved style of noise rock that will scare the living shit out of you. Guest appearances from members of fellow NYC compatriots Imperial Triumphant & Pyrrhon scatter across the album, adding layers of cacophony.
With ten full years of pain and suffering under their proverbial belt, along with three prior full-length albums My Life As A Woman (2014), Contempt (2017), and Take A Chance On Rock ‘n’ Roll (2020), Couch Slut sounds more urgent, threatening, nasty and despondent than ever, and You Could Do It Tonight is the perfect soundtrack for 2024.
Couch Slut will make their European debut at Roadburn Fest on April 19 performing You Could Do It Tonight in full. Additionally, the band has announced a special headlining set at Caterwaul Fest’s Afterparty in Minneapolis this May. Stay tuned for more 2024 live shows to be announced soon.
Pre-Order You Could Do It Tonight on LP/CD/CS/Digital via Brutal Panda Records or Bandcamp.
Couch Slut, live:
April 20 Tilburg, NL @ Roadburn Fest (Performing You Could Do It Tonight)
May 26 Minneapolis, MN @ Caterwaul Fest
You Could Do It Tonight, Track Listing:
- Couch Slut Lewis
- Ode To Jimbo
- Wilkinson’s Sword
- The Donkey
- Presidential Welcome
- Energy Crystals For Healing
- Downhill Racer
- Laughing and Crying
- The Weaversville Home For Boys
Dylan DiLella – guitar
Kevin Hall – bass, shehnai, granular synthesizer
Amy Mills – guitar, flute, trumpet
Theo Nobel – drums and percussion, synthesizer, bells
Megan Osztrosits – vocals
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