Perfect Pussy--I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling

This is rocking my socks off, as it will yours.

http://prrfectpussy.bandcamp.com

yeah, they are great.

looking forward for the LP

signed to captured tracks

These are very good. A split 7" with Joanna Gruesome in the spring iirc

I think I am going to see them in Philly on Sunday. They sound pretty good.

Here they are at the Pitchfork CMJ Showcase:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er2-ujXSpw8

Touring the Us of A. Still haven't decided if their screaming vocals are my kind of screaming vocals

at first i thought this was whatever but her vocals are really good, and i think the noise pedals stuff really gives it a cool vibe

haven't decided if it's a perfect pussy or not

The Philly show was essentially a house show, hosted by a row house attached to a corner bodega at a West Philly intersection that would have been far sketchier if it wasn't blanketed in snow. For reasons unknown to me, the publicist put me on a guest list, but seeing the family environment I coughed up the whopping $5 admission, keen to support the scene and all.

Despite the weather, the living room was adequately filled when Perfect Pussy played. It was a short show, only a handful of songs each played more briskly than the one before with vocals buried in the "mix" (which might be a feature not a bug, based on the tape I purchased.) But the band had an interesting sound, chaotic but held together by the skin of it's sharpened teeth, with synthesizer squeals adding a surprisingly important component. But the singer was the star, a ball of righteous fury whose conviction made me want to go to war for her if she asked, or maybe if she didn't but needed the help.

I purchased their cassette, the first tape I received in any form since a record label attempted to circumvent piracy by sending out advance tapes for the black metal band Dimmu Borgir some time ago. The last time I paid for a tape? I cannot even guess. And listening to it now, I can hear (like, literally) why I refuse to join in with the hipster black metal cassette trend. But this was all they had (and a white tee-shirt which I would have bought because while I have an affinity for profane articles of clothing, I never wear white shirts) and it's a tape hiss hot mess though I will eventually be convinced the background buzz is part of the audio experience.

There is a subtle subterfuge beneath the main narrative of Perfect Pussy, one that is even more profound than the blaring speed and volume, and this can be said not only of the disarmingly personal lyrics that are purposefully difficult to decipher but also of the Joy Division-like rhythms that snake beneath the carnage. But even if all you have time for is the fury, you can do a lot worse.

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can't believe you never wear white shirts

Me too.

Dc show tonight, not sure if I will make it.

Me too, as in I can't believe it either.

Hate white shirts. I have a couple that I use to wear beneath a tuxedo shirt that I wear when I do some part-time gigs dealing poker and blackjack, but I never wear a white shirt by itself.

thats a sweet part time job

still kicking myself for missing the Philly show :(((((((((

behold, my many Sadness Chins

saw them when they came through brooklyn. unfortunately those massive sheets of guitar noise from the EP did not really turn up in the live show, but the singer was great, plenty of charisma

Full length LP coming in early 2014. Very excited. That Shoppers album was maybe my favorite punk release of the last five years; glad she seems to be finding an audience with the new band

Hate the band name, but clearly it's working for them

can't make out lyrics from listening to the songs, but worth reading them on the bandcamp site. lyrics sold me on these songs.

NPR is streaming Perfect Pussy's forthcoming album:

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/09/286365663/first-listen-perfect-pussy-say-yes-to-love

I want to like this as I like noise and pop and noisy pop, but I don't know...seems flat/kinda boring. And that's not backlash talking.

Will revisit.

definitely flat and boring to me, which is backlash talking

I enjoyed it myself. Not too long...well sequenced and uses space well. Like the electronic ending too.

Hilarious name

Sick of it now tho

Try searching for a torrent of this...

As usually happens eventually, the name is just the sound of words to me now. I don't think of cement when I talk about Pavement.

The internet still thinks about exceptional vagina when you search "Perfect Pussy."

So do I, actually.....

"Pavement" is a somewhat more value-neutral name than "Perfect Pussy", tho

Second listen through and I am a confirmed fan. I THINK this kind of sound could so easily be relentless but it's not. It's good.

you know you're in an ILM thread about a punk rock band when someone is putting forward 'relentless' and 'good' as mutually exclusive values

this band are cool though. packaging for the CD version of this is amusingly prissy/OTT. looks like a mid-00s r'n'b album

OK these guys're fucking great, btw, quite like the name now. As you were

What changed your mind?

Listened to them, loved it.

Oh and I read a couple of interviews etc too

This is def a read-along-with-the-lyric-sheet band

this is a super interesting record imo - lotsa sweet 7th chords all over which coupled with the aggression/blown-out vocals makes for a good listen - remind me of unwound kinda?

oooh unwound! i'm interested now

whiney is REAAAALLY on the warpath about this band! he hate em!!

Deafheaven finished in his top ten for 2013 so http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/362/3/6/lol_whatever_kane_by_idera-d6zr9n7.jpg

Well just to be snide that just makes loving them all the sweeter, he's annoying

Relentless has a negative connotation. Yes I see your point. I guess I am a family man now.

upon further review, i am creeping to the "dig it" side of the fence about the first 15 minutes of this and love the last 6-8 minutes. i didn't even make it to the last part the first time i listened.

was a strange little record.

*what not was

(After reading this thread) I have lost all desire to listen to this record

It's not bad! Though it's weird which bands seem to get randomly picked out of underground rock for acclaim... like this seems like a band I would see at a bar and be like I'm digging this but there are probably 1000 bands that are just as cool

Srsly wish I lived where you do

This album is just okay. I'll give it another listen and see if it sticks, but it's not doing much for me.

(Whoops, I was referring to their latest album.)

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/03/18/289013884/who-had-richer-parents-doctors-or-arists

neat graph

most ppl i know involved in DIY & punk have actual day jobs so their profession would be listed as teacher, or admin assistant, or programmer, or whatever actual career/job they have

My anger is more authentic than your anger cos my parents made less money sounds silly.

i feel like this is said a lot more than it's true, at least in my experience a great deal of the ppl in diy/punk i know are from middle-to-working class backgrounds

― Little Nicky Pizza loved that rascal Rust (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, March 21, 2014 7:54 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's also to varying degrees less true outside north America I wd say. in any case Adam's post has nothing to do w/ what I was getting at which is Whiney's thing abt "got places like Topshop and Doc Martens to put up $$$$$$ for an ostensibly DIY venue"

the publicist put me on a guest list
SMASH THE SYSTEM !

The Philly show was essentially a house show, hosted by a row house attached to a corner bodega at a West Philly intersection that would have been far sketchier if it wasn't blanketed in snow. For reasons unknown to me, the publicist put me on a guest list, but seeing the family environment I coughed up the whopping $5 admission, keen to support the scene and all.

what on earth is the point of trying to be a dick about this kind of thing when the rest of the paragraph in question is right here itfuckingt

ooh touchy !
it ain't about you, narcissus

point was if you're making art that needs publicists (or, indeed grants) then, y'know while it might be great both the artists n that, to me it's bankrupt

er..
great for the artists n that, like y'kna. cha

I didn't write the post in question so it clearly isn't about me, I just thought it was and is a dumb mischaracterisation of everyone involved. if you honestly think that any band who has someone else help promote their music is morally unclean then fine but I'm not sure ILM is really your ideal stomping ground tbh

"clearly isn't about me", ok debating-team captain.
yes it is a dumb mischaracterisation of everone involved, y'think maybe on purpose? for fun?
ffs

well I can't stand in the way of some #topbantz

actually i don't know - i've totally lost the plot. i say things, and then i don't actually have any clue why. it's all post-hoc justification. did i mean it, was it a joke? are my opinions, my values situationally determined from second to second?
it seems that way.
apologies for any inconvenience & I wish you all well despite random outbursts

oh i x-posted with your delightfully generous #topbantz insinuation.
good work !

i wonder if there are less arguments settled with fists these days because everyone fancies themself a master wizard of wit

Yes the schoolyards are now clear of blood. All that can be heard is the sound of puns, obscure cutting references, well considered snark, elaborate asides and general glorious eloquence piled upon eloquence deciding who is top dog. I also note that the Ukraine situation has been thus far free of fists. Action movies are no longer relevant and boxing has lost it's former prestige. Even Mike Tyson prefers Twitter. Tis a golden age to be sure.

Hype is fun bc makes me feel part of something in distanced age of internet

Yes. And what is meant by hype in this case? Seems to me it just means that 'Pitchfork likes it' + a couple.of other articles in supposedly influential publications. It's not like there are billboards everywhere, viral campaigns and well managed appearances on Ellen. This is pretty small scale hype I would say - 99.99 percent of the population has no idea this band exists. But I welcome a bit of excitement and hyperbole...if that's how it makes you feel then why not? I don't want to always feel jaded and cynical about new music despite that fact that age and experience are inevitably wearying. Remember how it used to feel?

Yeah exactly, also age is a lot less wearying if you don't sit around whining all the fucking time

I like this band, fuck this thread

lotta still spots on this album, posed moments of peacefulness

i like how the alongside stream of feedback and ranting makes the boring indie part seem chunky and purposeful

this isn't that bad

It's not bad at all. It's like your friend's band that's pretty good.

Wow, a really good friend band. Glowing endorsement.

doubleplusgood or GTFO

Just saw them but her mic wasn't working for the entire set. Like, you couldn't hear her at all for the entire thing. It was a bit weird, you'd think they'd stop the set and give her another mic. People kept glaring at the soundman but he just kept shrugging like he couldn't do anything about it. The soundman sent someone onstage to check the mics after they'd finished, and they worked OK for the headline band, so I dunno wtf that was about.

♫ a candy-coloured clown they call the soundman ♫

Not at all? I've heard reports from shows on this (UK) tour that the vocals were way too low. I'm sceptical about some of those reports 'cause the vocals aren't necessarily that discernable on initial listens on the recorded material, and when I saw them last week in Brighton the levels seemed more or less similar to the records. They went down a storm in any case.

A few years ago I saw a Shoppers show in a basement where the bassist's amp wasn't working at all, but rather than wait until she figured it out they played a solid third of the set without her while she messed around with it helplessly. Meredith Graves really doesn't seem like she sweats the details

tbh I haven't heard anything by Perfect Pussy before, so maybe they are an instrumental band with a miming Bez dancing around in front, I did wonder.

This was how they were in Brighton

http://youtu.be/5t6sqV9ooXw

One of the things with the records is gradually hearing more of the lyrics I guess, it makes sense having the lyrics swimming in the middle of the mix. I've seen other clips of them live where the lyrics were more clearly audible though.

That's what I kept thinking I suppose, she was obviously putting a lot into singing or shouting or whatever she does, it was quite unsettling that there was no sound coming out, and most of the music seemed pretty interchangeable noise guitars so the lyrics must be part of the appeal I assume. Maybe the people at the front could hear her through proximity but the gig was in the back room of a pub so I wasn't that far away.

I started wondering if it was some kind of art statement about the female voice being drowned out by males or something.

The venue manager just posted on FB - She had her hand totally covering the mic (Sound tech and I were listening through the headphones on the desk, nae vocals)

So yeah, dunno what that was about, but it was a bit shit.

I saw them the other day in a basement and can attest that the either the mic wasn't working or the vocals were completely buried in the mix, such as it was. I heard vocals from other bands so I am assuming it's an aesthetic choice.

Perfect Vanilli

Here's some noisy video I shot of the band playing Philly a couple weeks ago...

Video

Thanks for making me put on the ep again, still love it, submerged vocals and all

opening band

Really really dislike the processing/muffling of the vocals in this band -- perfect example of once edgy thing becoming a well-worn trope.

http://collection.eliterature.org/2/extra/v2images/waterson_trope.png

Yeah, I loved the 4 song EP, but I never have the urge to play the debut album.

opening band

― rap steve (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, September 10, 2014 1:34 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I saw them the other day in a basement and can attest that the either the mic wasn't working or the vocals were completely buried in the mix, such as it was. I heard vocals from other bands so I am assuming it's an aesthetic choice.

― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 9:57 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, I had already forgotten I had seen them

I haven't, because they are the answer to "who was the shittest band you saw this year?"

I think this piece from the singer may answer some of the questions about low vocals:

http://thehairpin.com/2014/11/never-too-much/

The first time in my life that people have paid attention to what I have to say and it's threatening to take my voice away for good.

just saw them play outdoors in 19°F weather.

http://i.imgur.com/zNzxRvZ.png

overall the sound was shitty, but the vocals were as upfront as you'd expect from any band

I love the energy but my attitude toward the vocals varies - I think the effect works amazingly well on "Interference Fits" when the first thing you really understand is "since when do we say yes to love?"

homage to them in the new "House of Cards" season.

separate from the Pussy Riot stand-in or did that also reference PP? (I've only been able to half concentrate on this season, not explicitly trashy enough.)