Contempt, by Couch Slut

Contempt

by Couch Slut

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Jayden Every time I listen to this it breaks my heart perfectly. Ugh. Thank you for making it. Favorite track: Penalty Scar.

iamspoonbender Confrontation. Definitely the modus oporandi of the band. Amrep recs would be very proud of this band. Noise rock the way it's meant to be. Favorite track: Funeral Dyke.

Mike Swag do you fiend for UGLY music? I do. here's some of the best in town. Favorite track: Funeral Dyke.

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	1.	Funeral Dyke 04:44
	2.	Company Picnic With Dust Off 04:46
	3.	Penalty Scar 04:40
	4.	Snake In The Grass 05:30
	5.	Summer Smiles 08:32
	6.	Folk Song 06:45
	7.	Won't Come 09:24

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Gilead Media announces the July 28th release of Contempt, the second album by Couch Slut.

From Brooklyn, New York, Couch Slut shook the underground in 2014 with the release of its debut, My Life as a Woman. Stereogum called that album "engagingly smart and terrifyingly blunt" and pegged the sound as "a little bit Oxbow and a little bit Today Is the Day during the AmRep years... It's catharsis through pain, both for the listener and the band. But it's also smart in the way it sets expectations and subverts them."

New album Contempt carries on in this fashion – Couch Slut's savagery and intelligence are both in full effect, adding up to an album that thrills on two levels. Opening track "Funeral Dyke" sets the tone, with a skronking saxophone buried under a grimy, blackened, noise-rock blitz. Later in the song, a tambourine rattles along happily with the beat as vocalist Megan Osztrosits screams, "I will fuck you, now you're dirt!"

Contrasts such as those on display in "Funeral Dyke" are what make Contempt the engrossing, dynamic affair that it is. The band's foundation rests on the scorched earth between Unsane's pounding NYC hate-rock and Darkthrone's mournful metal, but Contempt is filled with surprises. The songs are peppered with odd instrumentation – the aforementioned saxophone and tambourine, as well as tuba, trombone, accordion, viola, and concert bells – and tend to begin on one path and end on another. A cold dirge erupts into a chugging thrashfest; a sludgy rocker slides into a wistful jam recalling Sonic Youth's more tender moments.

A consistent force throughout the album is Osztrosits' wild-eyed, hair-raising voice. Harsh and unsettling, every snarled word slashes at nerves. Atop the twisting, writhing, and rocking of guitarist Kevin Wunderlich, bassist Kevin Hall, and drummer Theo Nobel, her confessional lyrics paint horrific pictures of "anger, depression, terror, drug abuse, mental illness, violence, the surreal, longing, and loss."

Gilead Media owner Adam Bartlett says this: "As a label that releases a fair amount of black metal, doom, and other varieties of 'extreme music,' the concept of visceral and transgressive art is nothing new to Gilead Media. But Contempt may stand as one of the most vicious and unnerving releases in the label's history."

Contempt was recorded by Couch Slut's Kevin Wunderlich and former member Amy Mills. It was mixed by Caley Monahan-Ward (Extra Life, Voice Coils) and mastered by James Plotkin (Leviathan, Sumac).

The cover art was created by Leandro De Cotis, the artist behind the X-rated My Life as a Woman cover which sparked many discussions upon its release.

Sporting brains and brawn, Couch Slut makes music that punches the gut and stimulates the mind. Contempt's harrowing version of rock reflects its hometown – dirty, dangerous, dazzling – and secures the band's place in the line of great NYC documentarians, from Sonic Youth to Swans, from Unsane to Pyrrhon.

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released July 28, 2017

Lineup:
Megan Osztrosits - vocals
Kevin Wunderlich - guitar
Kevin Hall - bass
Theo Nobel - drums

Recorded by Kevin Wunderlich and Amy Mills
Mixed by Caley Monahan-Ward
Mastered by James Plotkin

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Est. 2005.

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discography

Negative Sound

Nov 2019
Mishlei

Oct 2019
Cairn

Sep 2019
Patterns in Mythology

Jul 2019
Portent

Jul 2019
Rare Field Ceiling

Jun 2019
Dimensional Bleedthrough (re-master)

May 2019
Diotima (re-master)

May 2019
Krallice - Krallice (re-master)

May 2019
Years Past Matter (re-master)

May 2019
Ceremonies of Consolidation

Apr 2019
Ceremonies of Repetition

Apr 2019
Let Pain Be Your Guide

Nov 2018
Glacial Tomb

Oct 2018
Outer Supernal

Oct 2018
Rites of Despair

Sep 2018
Lore of the Lakes

Jul 2018
Chasm

Jul 2018
Vile Luxury

Jul 2018
This Unabating Wakefulness

May 2018
Self-Annihilating Consciousness

Feb 2018
Go Be Forgotten

Nov 2017
Last Bastion of Cowardice

Nov 2017
Loüm

Oct 2017
Immersion Trench Reverie

Oct 2017
Teneral

Oct 2017
HELL

Aug 2017
Contempt

Jul 2017
Hunger

Jul 2017
Strangled Light

Jul 2017
As We Cup Our Hands and Drink From the Stream of Our Ache

Jun 2017
Geryon

May 2017
You Are Not One Of Us

Apr 2017
xoroAHbin

Apr 2017
Prelapsarian

Dec 2016
Coffin Wisdom

Dec 2016
Split LP

Dec 2016
Deeper Than Sky

Dec 2016
Vhol

Dec 2016
Ygg huur

Dec 2016
What A Time To Be Barely Alive

Sep 2016
Peasant (re-issue)

Sep 2016
Yodh

Aug 2016
Hex Of Nine Heads

Jul 2016
Exegeses

Jul 2016
The Spoor Of Vipers

Apr 2016
The Startling Testimony of Plumb Lines

Mar 2016
Sick With Bloom

Dec 2015
Split 7"

Dec 2015
Weltschmerz

Dec 2015
Litany

Oct 2015
Grievances

Oct 2015
Negate the Infinite and Miraculous

Jun 2015
Untitled (2015)

Jun 2015
Ceremonies of Humiliation

May 2015
Reverser

Mar 2015
Taches Noires Vivantes/Living Black Dots

Mar 2015
The Departure Of Consciousness

Mar 2015
Instinct Is Forever

Aug 2014
The Earth Wants Us Dead

Aug 2014
The Virtuous Purge

Jun 2014
Heathen

Mar 2014
II

Sep 2013
Hammer of Night

Jul 2013
Hexer

Jul 2013
Regnum Saturni

Jun 2013
Lychgate

May 2013
Bloodlands

Apr 2013
Destroyer

Sep 2012
Split

Sep 2012
Years Past Matter

Aug 2012
Resurrection Bay

Apr 2012
I Am Legion

Mar 2012
Untitled

Aug 2011
Untitled

Jul 2011
Ash Borer/Fell Voices Split LP

Mar 2011
Clandestine Abuse

Mar 2011
Untitled (II)

Mar 2011
Summit

Jul 2010
I Can Always Live

Feb 2010
Comfort At Any Cost

Jan 2010
We Pass Like Night, From Land To Land (Thou/Leech Split LP)

Nov 2009
Thrive & Decay

Oct 2009
Gambling On The Richter Scale

Sep 2009
Hewhocorrupts/Phoenix Bodies Split

Apr 2009
1984 (Eternal)

Mar 2009
Turk Street

Sep 2008
Tyrant

Mar 2008
Indricothere

Mar 2008
The Mess I've Made

Jan 2008
Ω

Jan 2008
Cntrl-Alt-Delete-U

Apr 2007
...Of Sinking Ships

Jun 2006
A Scanner Darkly

Jan 2006
Signals & Waves

Jan 2006

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