Why Love Now
Pissed Jeans have spent more than a decade transforming ugliness into an ideal. Savage and smart, *Why Love Now* catalogs the drudgery of modern life (desk work, webcams) with unsettling acuity—the musical equivalent of grease stains in high definition. “Have you ever been furniture?” singer Matt Korvette roars, invoking a history of sludgy cynics from Flipper and early Black Flag to contemporaries like Harvey Milk. In Korvette’s outlook, the furniture question is rhetorical—we all have.
Co-produced with Lydia Lunch, the new Pissed Jeans LP is the sludge-punk band’s cleanest, most hi-fidelity album, and their deepest dive into the inglorious male psyche yet.
Co-produced with Lydia Lunch, the new Pissed Jeans LP is the sludge-punk band’s cleanest, most hi-fidelity album, and their deepest dive into the inglorious male psyche yet.
Raging at full throttle, Pissed Jeans wrench the demons of modern life out from where they hide and leave them battered and broken in the spotlight.
Raging at full throttle, Pissed Jeans wrench the demons of modern life out from where they hide and leave them battered and broken in the spotlight.
Pissed Jeans grind down on the ugliness buried in the mundanity of modern life, crushing it into the wreckage of metal and post-punk.
Pissed Jeans grind down on the ugliness buried in the mundanity of modern life, crushing it into the wreckage of metal and post-punk.
Philly punk outfit Pissed Jeans return after a four-year gap with Why Love Now, a raucous and unsparing take on the monotony of modern life....
Philly punk outfit Pissed Jeans return after a four-year gap with Why Love Now, a raucous and unsparing take on the monotony of modern life....
On their fifth album, Pissed Jeans offer yet another album full of commentary on the working world and that of interpersonal relationships from guys with jobs and kids. The music is still raw, sludgy, and what Robert Christgau would've called "pigfuck" ba
On their fifth album, Pissed Jeans offer yet another album full of commentary on the working world and that of interpersonal relationships from guys with jobs and kids. The music is still raw, sludgy, and what Robert Christgau would've called "pigfuck" ba
Ah the bruised, emasculated male psyche, allegedly responsible for everything from the foaming-mouthed rants of men’s rights crusaders to the
Ah the bruised, emasculated male psyche, allegedly responsible for everything from the foaming-mouthed rants of men’s rights crusaders to the
The fifth album from Philadelphia noise-rock band Pissed Jeans released on Sub Pop is a brutal, humorous and self-aware effort.
The fifth album from Philadelphia noise-rock band Pissed Jeans released on Sub Pop is a brutal, humorous and self-aware effort.
'Why Love Now' by Pissed Jeans, album review by Josh Gabert-Doyon. The album is available February 24 on Sub Pop. Pissed Jeans, play 2/23 in Washington, DC.
'Why Love Now' by Pissed Jeans, album review by Josh Gabert-Doyon. The album is available February 24 on Sub Pop. Pissed Jeans, play 2/23 in Washington, DC.