BULLY SUGAREGG CD / LP / CS SP 1363 RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 21ST, 2020 TRACKLISTING: 1. Add It On 2. Every Tradition 3. Where to Start 4. Prism 5. You 6. Let You 7. Like Fire 8. Stuck in Your Head 9. Come Down 10. Not Ashamed 11. Hours and Hours 12. What I Wanted GENRE: Alternative Rock SUGAREGG roars from the speakers and jumpstarts both heart and mind. Like My Bloody Valentine after three double espressos, opener “Add It On” zooms heavenward within seconds, epitomizing band leader Alicia Bognanno’s newfound clarity of purpose, while the bass-driven melodies and propulsive beats of “Where to Start” and CD Packaging: Digipack “Let You” are the musical equivalents of the sun piercing through a LP Packaging: Single-pocket jacket with perpetually cloudy sky. custom dust sleeve Includes mp3 coupon A very old saying goes that no one saves us but ourselves. Recognizing NON-RETURNABLE and breaking free from the patterns impeding our forward progress can be transformative. Indeed, the third Bully album, SUGAREGG, may not ever have come to fruition had Bognanno not navigated every kind of upheaval imaginable and completely overhauled her working process along the way. The artist admits that finding the proper treatment for bipolar 2 disorder radically altered her mindset, freeing her from a cycle of paranoia and insecurity about her work. “Being able to finally navigate CS Packaging: Three-panel LP Packaging: Single-pocket jacket with that opened the door for me to write about it,” she says, pointing to J-card in clear case. custom dust sleeve the sweet, swirly “Like Fire” and slower, more contemplative songs NON-RETURNABLE LOSER EDITION blue w/white smoke such as “Prism” and “Come Down” as having been born of this new vinyl - Includes mp3 coupon NON-RETURNABLE headspace. Even small changes like listening to music instead of the news first thing in the morning “made me want to write and bring that pleasure to other people.” RETAIL: Posters and play copies will be available. An unexpected foray into the film world also helped set the table for PUBLICITY: Album serviced to all music & lifestyle media. SUGAREGG when Bognanno was asked to write songs for the 2019 movie Her Smell, starring Elisabeth Moss as the frontwoman of the ONLINE: Artist page (incl. album art and a focus track): https://www.subpop.com/artists/bully Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bullythemusic fictional rock band Something She. The experience was cathartic, twitter: https://twitter.com/bully infusing Bognanno with new energy for songwriting, and she dove into Tnstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bullythemusic/ making the new album. Having engineered both previous Bully Website: http://www.bullythemusic.com/ albums herself, Bognanno freed herself to focus on the songs by Spotify: 57k monthly listeners, 42k followers handing production and engineering duties to Grammy-winning producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Sleater-Kinney, The War on Advertising will be purchased on select sites. Drugs, Modest Mouse), and who worked with her on SUGAREGG at Pachyderm Studios in Cannon Falls in Bognanno’s home state of RADIO: SUGAREGG will be worked to commercial and non-commercial/college radio. Minnesota. (Nirvana’s In Utero, PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me and Superchunk’s Foolish were recorded at Pachyderm.) With TOURING: Bully plans to tour as soon as everyone can go to shows again contributions from longtime touring drummer Wesley Mitchell and bassist Zach Dawes (Sharon Van Etten and Lana Del Rey), and two ALSO AVAILABLE: additional songs recorded at Palace Studios in Toronto with Graham Walsh (Alvvays, METZ, !!!), SUGAREGG was finally complete. Ultimately, SUGAREGG is a testament that profound change can yield profound results — in this case, the most expressive and powerful music of Bognanno’s career. “This is me longing to see the bigger picture, motivated and eager for contentment in the best way,” she says. “I hope the happy go lucky/fuck-it-all attitude shines through SP1211 some of these songs because I really did feel like I was reentering a Losing place I hadn’t been to in a while and was excited to be back there.” LP/CD/CS/Digital GIRL FRIDAY AUG 21, 2020 ANDROGYNOUS MARY HAR-123 ALTERNATIVE/ROCK CD/LP/CS CD LP TAPE NON-RETURNABLE NON-RETURNABLE SINGLE-POCKET JACKET THREE-panel j-card in TRACK LISTING: W/CUSTOM DUST SLEEVE clear case 01. This Is Not the Indie Rock I Signed Up For includes mp3 coupon 02. Amber's Knees: A Matter of Concern 03. Eaten Thing 04. Public Bodies 05. What We Do It For 0 9 8 7 8 7 3 1 2 3 2 4 0 9 8 7 8 7 3 1 2 3 1 7 0 9 8 7 8 7 3 1 2 3 4 8 06. Earthquake 07. Clotting Burning deep in Girl Friday's music is an unquenchable will to survive. The LA-based band don't blunt 08. Gold Stars the impact of the themes they work through in their ferocious, knotty rock songs, but they don't let 09. Favorite Friend the more harrowing aspects of being alive and young in the 21st century daunt them, either. Taking 10. I Hope Jason Is Happy full advantage of the dystopian shades of post-punk and noise rock palettes on their arresting debut LP, Androgynous Mary, Girl Friday nevertheless suffuse their music with abundant optimism. The ONLINE: world is a hellscape, but the four of them are in it together. https://www.hardlyart.com/artists/girl_friday https://twitter.com/girlfridaytm?lang=en With bold, dramatic guitar lines and tightly wound vocal harmonies, Girl Friday - guitarist Vera Ellen, https://www.instagram.com/girlfridaytm/?hl=en bassist Libby Hsieh, guitarist Sierra Scott, drummer Virginia Pettis - negotiate the stress and alienation https://www.facebook.com/elgirlfriday/ that comes with being sidelined from normative society on Androgynous Mary. "Does the average https://www.girlfridaytm.com/ man feel like he's on the outside?" goes the beginning of "Public Bodies," a wistful jangle-pop gem Advertising will be purchased on select sites. that shudders open into a snarling punk coda. Taking cues from boundary-pushers Sonic Youth, Girl Friday favor the rush of jarring turns over the safety of well-defined pop taxonomy. Looking to queer RETAIL: provocateurs like Placebo, they cherish the frisson of incongruous musical elements soldered togeth- Posters and play copies will be available. er: "really dark, heavy things mashed up with quite beautiful things, whether that be a distorted guitar line and a sentimental vocal or vice versa," as Ellen puts it. PUBLICITY: Album serviced to all music & lifestyle media. That duality dovetails with the thematic friction running through the album, the alternating despair and hope that intertwine in the fight to stay alive as any kind of disenfranchised person in the US. Written TOURING: during a year of personal struggle for all four band members, Androgynous Mary reflects the solace Girl Friday will tour the US in 2020. they took in each other -- as a band, but also as a microcommunity and a chosen family. RADIO: On the record's final song, "I Hope Jason Is Happy," Girl Friday sing in unison: "My head is on your Androgynous Mary will be worked to commercial chest / In the end I'll be happy if you do your best / You've got to fight to keep your breath in this and non-commercial/college radio. world." It's a testament to the power of their bond, and a gesture of solidarity with all those listening. Alone, we suffer under the weight of everything designed to keep us down. Together, we stand a fighting chance. Girl Friday place their hope squarely on that chance - on what we can do when we show up for each other, where we can go when we've got each other's backs. HARDLY ART | 2013 4th ave., 3rd floor | SEATTLE, WA 98121 | WWW.HARDLYART.COM | [email protected] NO JOY // MOTHERHOOD No Joy - Motherhood 01. Birthmark (3:40) 02. Dream Rats (3:35) 03. Nothing Will Hurt (3:13) 04. Four (4:18) 05. Ageless (2:45) 06. Why Mothers Die (3:36) 07. Happy Bleeding (3:38) 08. Signal Lights (3:52) 09. Fish (4:23) 10. Primal Curse (3:55) 11. Kidder (4:43) CAT#: HDD084 FORMAT: Full Length Digital, CD, Vinyl UPC: LP: 623339246217 // CD: 623339246224 ​ Montreal’s No Joy detail their first full length album in five years, Motherhood, which will be released on st ​ ​ August 21 ​ via Hand Drawn Dracula (Canada) and Joyful Noise (ROW). For Motherhood, front-person ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ and principal songwriter Jasamine White-Gluz took what she learned from synthesis, reincorporated guitars, and produced an album that is not a departure from No Joy’s early shoegaze, but a stylistically omnivorous expansion that ekes into trip hop, trance and nu-metal. Motherhood is the culmination of ​ ​ years composing outside of her comfort zone, and a return to DIY recording with a leveled-up expertise in production. Bandmember Jorge Elbrecht (Ariel Pink, Sky Ferreira, Japanese Breakfast) returns in his role as ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ co-producer and multi-instrumentalist. The band’s touring sound engineer Madeleine Campbell, who authors the Women In Sound zine, came on as engineer alongside Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie). ​ ​ Drummer Jamie Thompson (Islands, Esmerine) translated rhythmic ideas into hard-hitting performance, ​ ​ ​ ​ and brought in drum machines of his own. Frenetic shredder Tara McLeod (Kittie) makes her No Joy ​ ​ recorded debut, contributing not only guitars but banjos. ST ‘MOTHERHOOD’ LP OUT AUGUST 21 ​ via HAND DRAWN DRACULA (CAN) ​ GENRE: Alternative, Electronic, New Wave, Art Rock, Dream Punk, Dream Pop RIYL: U.S.