MANNEQUIN PUSSY – Philly Pop-Punk Burners Unroll A Series Of Maddening Mood Swings On New Album ‘I GOT HEAVEN’
5 March 2024
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Red-hot-blooded Philly pop-punk burners MANNEQUIN PUSSY
just unleashed shared their 4th LP, titled I GOT HEAVEN.
Press info: Mannequin Pussy‘s music feels like a resilient and galvanizing shout that demands to be heard. Their new album, I Got Heaven, which will be released via Epitaph Records , is the band’s most fully realised recording yet. Over ten ambitious tracks which abruptly turn from searing punk to inviting alternative pop, the album is deeply concerned with desire, the power in being alone, and how to live in an unfeeling and unkind world. It’s a document of a band doubling down on their unshakable bond to make something furious, thrilling, and wholly alive.
Pitchfork: “The Philadelphia rock band meets the moment with an essential, wide-
ranging record that’s mouthy, messy, and self-assured… It operates by a pop album’s rules;
it’s unashamed of its ambition and unselfconscious of its artifice, and in that way it’s a perfect reflection of its own thematic commitment to self-definition. The vulnerability that’s always made Mannequin Pussy’s music feel personal and urgent has now given them the freedom to expand in unexpected ways and discover what else they might be able to contain. It never feels like pure product; it’s too moist, too clammy, far too impolite.” Score: 8.8/10.
Impressive album artwork
TUTV: From spiked pop turbulence (Nothing Like / Sometimes) to brutal punk-exorcism
(I Got Heaven / OK? OK? OK? OK? / Of Her / Aching) and some barbed lullabies (I Got Heaven
/ I Don’t Know You / Split Me Open). Be ready for a series of maddening mood swings that does your ears, your mind and your speakers in with its vociferous and fulminating primal screams and its high-strung rollercoaster disturbance. They got heaven but they sure know a lot about hell too. Amen to that.
Singles/clips: Sometimes / I Don’t Know You / I Got Heaven
– I GOT HEAVEN –
Vicious punk blast
– SOMETIMES –
Pithy pop fuss
– I DON’T KNOW YOU –
Amplified reverie
ALBUM
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