Mommy Long Legs spike their brat punk on ‘Try Your Best’
There’s a lot of new genres being tossed around online these days, but Seattle band Mommy Long Legs can take credit for have pioneering two of the more creative ones: “Brat punk” and “fartcore.” After dissecting topics like cat calling and yuppie housewives on their past releases, their debut album Try Your Best, released last Friday via Youth Riot Records, tackles some new ones with the group’s signature acerbic sense of humor.
Mommy Long Legs – “Bridezilla”
The Seattle band Mommy Long Legs has been around for a bit now, amassing a tape, an EP, and a 7″ since they started releasing music in 2015. Today, they’re announcing their debut album, Try Your Best, with a new song called “Bridezilla,” which is ridiculous and theatrical and also really damn catchy.
Sleepover Club’s ‘My Other Dad Is Your Ride’
Everett’s Sleepover Club is fun, with a side of “fuck you.” Championing lyrics that are equal parts pointed, witty, and downright goofy, Sleepover Club provides punk rock ripper after punk rock ripper, with each song somehow catchier than the last, on their new record, My Other Dad Is Your Ride (released by Youth Riot Records).
Podcast Ep. 45: Sleepover Club
This week on the podcast, Henry J. and Tyler sat down with the band Sleepover Club, featuring Everettites Sierra, Katee, and Sid. The cool kids of Everett, Sleepover Club just signed with a label and has their first single out now.
Havania Whaal Is Not a Normal Band
“Brood-gaze” is exactly what it sounds like: moody shoegaze informed by a constellation of legendary bands like Cocteau Twins, Joy Division, and X. Havania Whaal is the self-described “brood-gaze” project of three busy Portland musicians: drummer Noelle Magia (Plastic Weather, Smoke Rings), guitarist Paul Billy Sobiech (Fine Pets), and bassist Caroline Jackson (Lubec). This week, they’re releasing their third album, Elaborate Minor Crisis, on Seattle’s Youth Riot Records.
WEEK IN POP: ETA, MOMMY LONG LEGS, NATURAL VELVET
As the politics & news, the radical and righteous rise of Seattle's Mommy Long Legs; photographed by Sam Leung at Seattle’s High Dive.