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ARTIST: Mrs. Piss
TITLE: Self-Surgery
RELEASED: May 29, 2020
LABEL: Sargent House
NOTABLE TRACKS: “Downer Surrounded By Uppers” | “Nobody Wants To Party With Us” | “You Took Everything”
This 18-minute punk record—with sludgy, grunge-y ’90s influences—is a side-project collaboration between the acclaimed Chelsea Wolfe and drummer Jess Gowrie. (Wolfe and Gowrie formerly played together in the band Red Host, until there was a falling out, followed years later by reconciliation, and then Wolfe invited Gowrie to join her band for 2017’s Hiss Spun.) Mrs. Piss is markedly different from Wolfe’s usual fare (though I love Wolfe’s usual fare), and it rocks incredibly heavy and hard, particularly because Gowrie is a beast of a drummer. There’s talk of the two eventually putting out more albums under the Mrs. Piss moniker, but so far this is all we’ve got, and it hasn’t gotten nearly enough love.
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