Screaming Females’ eighth album, ‘Desire Pathway’ is out now, with 10 tracks to cut your teeth on, and the new music video for the song “Mourning Dove” is now available to crack to 11.
WATCH: SCREAMING FEMALES – “MOURNING DOVE” MUSIC VIDEO
The band, who have stuck with their original lineup since their inception, have been together for now 17 years. Marissa Paternoster, Mike Abbate, and Jarrett Dougherty share advice that they got from producer Steve Albini early on in their career with ‘Spin,’ saying the following:
“When it stops having exciting moments, that’ll be the end of it,” Dougherty says. “We haven’t kept this going because it’s some sort of cash cow or something. It’s still a vital relationship. There’s this idea that either you’re punk or you make money, and that you should give up the money to stay punk. [Albini’s] thing is that there’s just not that much money in music, and someone’s going to take it from you if you give them the opportunity to. [So] Mike prints our shirts, Marissa does the artwork, things like that are how we’ve managed to stay sustainable on a financial level.”
“We’re not doing this because there’s tons of cash, we’re doing this because we’re compelled to do it,” Abbate adds. “I fully expect whatever cash there is to dry up, but I don’t expect to stop rocking.”
“Hell yeah, Mike!” Paternoster responds, all three bursting into laughter.
The album was recorded at Minnesota’s Pachyderm Studios (which is where Nirvana recorded ‘In Utero’), and according to Spin, was the first time Paternoster “very blatantly” wrote an album about “the end of a relationship.” She’d initially considered writing a pandemic-themed album but ultimately went another direction. She told Spin: “I think I needed to use the lyrical aspect of this record as a therapeutic mechanism, which is what I use art for. I was just like ‘You know what? I’m just gonna keep them. I’m gonna do my past self that service.’
Last night, the band kicked off the release of their album at Garden Party Festival, which is a 2-day event that they spearhead themselves. This also served as the beginning of their tour in support of this album.
SEE THE TOUR DATES BELOW AND FIND OUT IF SCREAMING FEMALES ARE COMING TO A CITY NEAR YOU:
SEE: PHOTOS OF SCREAMING FEMALES AT MUSE ON MAIN, 2022
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