Perfect Pussy
‘I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling’
Bandcamp
Ph:Brett Davis
Bandcamp is a pretty wonderful site. There’s definitely something more satisfying about transferring money directly to the band rather than giving your money to Apple and every so often you’ll stumble upon something truly exciting. One such discovery we made this week was the brilliantly named Perfect Pussy who hail from Syracuse, New York.
Bringing a tenacious hardcore energy to noise-pop, Perfect Pussy thrash out four distorted, fast-as-fuck, fuzzed out smashers in their EP I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling, which the band put out a few months ago. The four tracks are simply titled as I, II, III and (you guessed it), IIII and bring to mind the experimentalism of Melt Banana, the more ferocious moments of Trail Of Dead, but with pop hooks like our pals Joanna Gruesome. There’s even some shoegaze elements in there for good measure! I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling is exhilarating, intense, intoxicating and above all massively exciting.
Singer Meredith may snarl, but the lyrics are often confessional and introspective – not that you would know it due to the heavy distortion layered on. On ‘III’ she laments: “Every dog deserves forgiveness, no matter who he bit. I’m a real lost cause. I’m a real piece of shit” before “I’ve been lying to get attention, I’ve been lying and lying. I think I’ll just stay home forever this time” – often the simplest lyrics can be the most gut wrenching.
There’s not a hell of a lot about these guys online at the moment, in fact they don’t even have a Facebook page, but we’d love to think that you’ll be hearing more from them soon. From photo evidence, their shows look equally intense, so keep your fingers crossed for a UK tour sometime soon.
Give them some money for their EP and let them crash at your house if they do ever make it over here.