Team Dresch announce new album ‘Furthermore’

Titled Furthermore, the upcoming release from the legendary Portland, Oregon queercore punk band is set for release on September 18th via Jealous Butcher Records. The album marks the band’s first full-length record in 30 years, following 1996’s Captain My Captain, and continues their legacy as one of the most vital and influential voices in underground punk, blending melodic intensity with deeply personal and political themes.

Speaking about the album, guitarist/vocalist Kaia Wilson says, “lungs full of grief expelling, eyes and guts wide open, yearning to be one with animals and nature, metal-flange-goth-grunge-punk-ass-rock-and-roll, loaded with inimitable vocal melodies and harmonies, Donna Dresch’s soaring guitaring that grabs you by the heart, so many other rad guitar parts all orchestrally intertwining, deep hynotic bass, and drumming mastery that deserves its own Grammys.”

Alongside the announcement, the band have released the first single from the album, One Song, accompanied by a new music video.

Speaking about the track, the band shares, “there are lots of layers to this song. It’s a love song to our young selves from our present selves. It’s a song of hope and power for all the young queers who are dragged into the struggle. It’s also a song for the elders who have built defenses from years of working and caretaking and being pounded by life.

The chorus starts, “They say there’s danger In the Night Kitchen/But it’s a dreamland/And it’s all for us.” In the Night Kitchen is a banned book written by our queer ancestor, Maurice Sendak, who creates magical dreamlands. And then as we wrote about what it’s like to be older, Mel remembered a message from an elder queer going through the same things as us and that message inspired the second verse.

Young people are not only told that they’re IN a nightmare, they’re told that they ARE the nightmare. But actually, our queerness is a dreamland full of feral, playful joy.”

Watch the official music video for One Song here:

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track list:

1. One Song
2. Growing Underground
3. Heard A Bang
4. I’ve Really Become Some Thing
5. Jamie
6. Still Your Room
7. And Now Your Face
8. I Won’t Tell
9. (Where Do) I Belong
10. Every Owl Leaves
11. Last One At The Party
12. Protectors

Furthermore is set for release on September 18th via Jealous Butcher Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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