Couch Slut announce new record, You Could Do It Tonight, out on April 19th via Brutal Panda

New York City’s resident misfits Couch Slut have played a veritable strain of drug-fuelled and incendiary form of hardcore noise rock since their inception back in 2013. Led by Megan Osztrosits’ infernal roar and subversive, vitriolic lyrics, the quintet return with their fourth full-length opus, You Could Do It Tonight, a release that feels like both a summation and an expansion of the Couch Slut experience to date. On one hand, it features some of the band’s most straightforward noise-rock crushers, the prime example being lead single “Ode to Jimbo” – you can listen to it below this article -, which pairs a stomping central riff with lyrics about sloppy-drunk excess, set in Osztrosits’ favourite Brooklyn watering hole, Jimbo Slim’s. “‘Ode to Jimbo’ is the first, like, love song that we’ve ever done, and I did that for my friend’s bar that I go to every day,” she explains.

Recorded amidst the filth of New York City with Uniform’s Ben Greenberg (Drab Majesty, Portrayal of Guilt, Metz), and mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios in London (Blur, Nick Cave, Thom Yorke), Couch Slut subvert the paradigm and up the ante in every imaginable way across nine vignettes of perverse, true-to-life storytelling layered over the band’s singular, dragged-through-the-mud songcraft. This is a depraved style of noise rock that will scare the living shit out of you, featuring guest appearances from members of fellow New York City compatriots Imperial Triumphant and Pyrrhon scattered across the record, adding layers of cacophony. Couch Slut will also be making their European debut at Roadburn Fest on April 19th, performing You Could Do It Tonight in full. Additionally, the band have announced a special headlining set at Caterwaul Fest’s Afterparty in Minneapolis in May, and a hometown performance on 1st March, with the respective venue still to be announced.

You Could Do It Tonight will be released on April 19th via Brutal Panda. Pre-orders are now available here.

Photo credit: Jeremiah Bird