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US alternative/stoner/punk rock trio Screaming Females return with brand new full-length album »Desire Pathway«, out now via Don Giovanni Records

New Brunswick, New Jersey based alternative/stoner/punk rock trio Screaming Females return with their brand new full-length album, »Desire Pathway«, released this Friday, February 17th, 2023 via Don Giovanni Records.

To celebrate the release, Screaming Females will be playing the only US state they have never played, Alaska for a 3 show run in March!

The band also dropped a music video for the lead single »Mourning Dove«, directed by William Bottini and Kate Sweeney.

Tracklist:
01. Brass Bell
02. Desert Train
03. Let You Go
04. Beyond The Void
05. Mourning Dove
06. It’s All Said And Done
07. Ornament
08. So Low
09. Let Me Into Your Heart
10. Titan

Courtesy of Don Giovanni Records:

Once you start looking for them, you’ll see desire paths everywhere. In parks and driveways, parking lots and apartment complexes, in front of corner stores, libraries, schools and offices.

“Maybe there was one in your neighborhood growing up, a corner where everyone decided it took too long to go around, so they made their own pathway to cut through,” says Marissa Paternoster, singer and guitarist of Screaming Females. “There’s this cool unsaid group consciousness that comes together where everyone decides, this is the right way to go.”

Now a band for half the lifetime of its members, Screaming Females have long been pounding out their own desire path. Formed in 2005 in New Brunswick, NJ, the trio has consistently created a hearty, surprising mix of indie-, alt-, punk- and stoner-rock, all with their original line-up of Paternoster, “King Mike” Mike Abbate (bass) and Jarrett Dougherty (drums).


Photo by Bob Sweeney

Released on February 17th by Don Giovanni Records, »Desire Pathway« was recorded at Minnesota’s Pachyderm Studios (where Nirvana recorded »In Utero«) and produced by Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Foxing, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden). Bright and full, the album captures the band at a time when nothing was certain other than their abiding desire to make music together.

»Desire Pathway« opens with the Sabbathy hypnotism of »Brass Bell«. Following a swelling haze of synth, feedback shrieks, martial snares advance, and the band explodes into a bracing groove. Soon, Paternoster makes the cryptic announcement: “I have flown us to the moon,” and we’re off. The song has the effect of clearing one haze and replacing it with another, much heavier one.

Compared with their previous record (2018’s expansive »All At Once«), »Desire Pathway« feels refreshed and direct. »Beyond The Void« may gather gloomily, but it quickly releases into its jangly, memorable chorus. Lead single »Mourning Dove« successfully channels the Pixies into a tight, driving power-pop song that passionately declares “my love for you is too strong to hide.”

Now 17 years and eight albums in, Screaming Females are still making their own path in the world, still touring DIY and releasing music without compromise. The route might cut a little off the main road, but you’ll quickly see there’s a reason they’re on it. You just might like where it leads you.

Order »Desire Pathway«: dongiovanni.co/DesirePathway

Screaming Females is:
Marissa Paternoster – Guitar, Vocals
Mike Abbate – Bass
Jarrett Dougherty – Drums

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well

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