Drug Church have shared their new single Chow which features on upcoming album Prude.
The new track lands after the first taste of the upcoming Prude came in the form of Demolition Man, a piece which racked up praise from the media.
New single Chow now embraces the melodic. It looks at sanctimonious behaviour and misguided enforcement of morals tipping over into callousness. As Drug Church’s Patrick Kindlon explains, “It just feels like everyone in the past 10 years or so seems to believe they’ve tripped into being right–and with that comes righteousness. So you stand in judgment and come off like an annoying dickhead. You see this in every culture, but particularly in desperate ones. Like in prison culture–you’re looking for the permissible population to abuse. You’re looking for the guy with a charge worse than yours so that you can crack a skull, because cracking skulls is your outlet.”
The 10-track Prude marks Drug Church’s follow up to their 2022 release Hygiene. The album is recorded and produced by long-time collaborator Jon Markson. It promises aggression, melodies and cutting lyricism.
Whilst the album wont find Drug Church reinventing themselves or taking a sonic lurch, it does find them continually looking to better themselves. As Kindlon adds, “The goal is to put out good records that sound like we do–we’re not trying to do an OK Computer. But I do think that when you just do something well, you hit a point where people think they have a complete understanding of who you are.”
Drug Church release Prude on 4 October 2024 via Pure Noise Records.
Image of Drug Church courtesy Manuel Barajas
