Mannequin Pussy have just announced that their new album, Patience, will be released on June 21st via Epitaph Records. It will serve as the follow-up to their 2016 release, Romantic, which was their debut for Epitaph.
To celebrate the announcement, Mannequin Pussy have released the first song off the album, “Drunk II.” On the new single, guitarist/vocalist Marisa Dabice explains, “It’s too easy now to look back on that song and feel a mixture of pity and disgust for myself and the emotions I poured into it. I never saw a breakup as anything other than emotional torture. But now, I understand that a breakup is a gift. Heartbreak is a gift. Someone leaving your life when you don’t expect them to is one of the most honest things we can experience. By electing to leave your life someone is telling you their truth: that they can’t be there for you the way you wish they could. That they can’t love you the way that you loved them. It took me a long time to realize that it is better to be alone than to be with someone who doesn’t really want to be there. You should never have to convince someone to love you. At the end of the song when I sing ‘Everyone gather round, I have the answer now’ – that is what I’m saying.”
Dabice, who also directed the video for “Drunk II” says, “I wanted to capture the feeling that so many of us experience when we are heartbroken and trying to move on. We pretend we have fun so that we are socially acceptable to those around us. We hope that drinking will make us happy and we wish that our nights will lead us into the arms of a beautiful stranger who will momentarily distract us from the pain we feel. I wanted to blend reality and fantasy in the music video for ‘Drunk II’ – where you aren’t quite sure if my character is just out with her bandmates and friends, pitifully crying to them about their lost love or if they are actually meeting those beautiful strangers every night. I wanted to show what it feels like to be out and heartbroken – that no matter where you are it feels like you are the only one with a broken heart. That everyone around you is deeply in love and you are completely alone. That no matter who you meet, you can’t stop thinking about that person who you lost.”
For Patience, Mannequin Pussy worked with producer/engineer Will Yip (The Menzingers, Quicksand) at Studio 4 in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. “In the past there’s been a chaotic feeling to the recording process, but working with Will put us in a different headspace,” says Dabice. “It helped us show our progression over the past few years and make a very crisp-sounding record, without losing the dirtiness of what Mannequin Pussy really is.”
Pre-orders for Patience are now available here. Additionally, Mannequin Pussy is currently on tour with Hot Snakes through May 4th. Below you will find the remaining tour dates, as well as the artwork/track-listing for Patience.
Patience artwork:
Patience track-listing:
- Patience – 2:12
- Drunk II – 4:28
- Cream – 1:55
- Fear/+/Desire – 3:35
- Drunk I – 0:53
- High Horse – 2:58
- Who You Are – 2:32
- Clams – 0:38
- F.U.C.A.W. – 2:05
- In Love Again – 4:18
Tour dates with Hot Snakes:
Fri/Apr 26- Dallas @ Curtain Club
Sat/Apr 27- Austin TX @ Barracuda
Sun/Apr 28- Houston TX @ Secret Group
Tue/Apr 30- Orlando FL @ The Abby
Wed/May 1- Atlanta GA @ Masquerade – Hell
Thu/May 2- Durham NC @ Motorco
Fri/May 3- Washington DC @ Rock and Roll Hotel
Sat/May 4- Jersey City NJ @ White Eagl
