Self-Surgery
Known for creating works of stark beauty and slow-motion sprawl, singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe and her longtime bandmate and drummer Jess Gowrie take scalpels to their usual style with Mrs. Piss. Cramming eight songs into just 19 minutes, *Self-Surgery* propels swirling, caustic punk (“Downer Surrounded by Uppers”), dark rock gallops (“Mrs. Piss”), and early PJ Harvey-isms (“Knelt”) through occasional washes of bubbling electronics (“Nobody Wants to Party With Us”) and acidic screams (“You Took Everything”). While some songs wouldn’t sound totally out of place on one of Wolfe’s own records, Mrs. Piss shows the more visceral side of both women.
If Wolfe and Gowrie were to become full partners on a project, it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect that their metal influences would be pushed up in the mix, and that's just what has happened on Self-Surgery, the debut EP from Mrs. Piss.
Mrs. Piss is a collaboration between Chelsea Wolfe (vocals, guitar) and Jess Gowrie (drums, guitar, bass, programming) and a way for the fri...
The short hand to describe Mrs. Piss would be to say that it’s Chelsea Wolfe gone punk – but there’s a little more to dig into here.