Watch and share the video for “I’d Rather Not” (Yeah)” which debuted onAutostraddle:
(strobe warning at 2:14)
Listen on Soundcloud:
“It’s a tongue-in-cheek high five to everyone who’s just trying to get through the damn day, with a hook that’ll be stuck in your head for the rest of the week. You’re welcome.”
--Autostraddle
“Their new track is about feeling disaffected but trying anyway. They want to do what they love — which, sometimes, involves doing absolutely nothing — but are forced into the real world in order to pay the bills.”
--Stereogum
Deceptively poignant duo, Coping Skills, from Philadelphia announce their sophomore record,Worst New Music, will be out on April 13, 2018 via Citywide Records. It’s “moderately gay post-ironic bummer pop” that consists of “moving, endearing, and occasionally upsetting songs about, like, the exhausting burden of living under capitalism, post-millennial rot, and the ways mental health can affect both individuals and relationships.”
As the follow-up to their debut album, Relatable Web Content, which Stereogum calls a “wry and sharp collection of tracks, filled with odes to Ben Gibbard and songs about mounting college debt,” one thing is for sure: this band is committed to the bit and they’re all about the joke.
At times, it’s fair to say the duo (Rachel Dispenza and Lauren DeLucca) are annoyingly self-aware. Here’s what they have to say about the title of their sophomore record’s title:
Calling it Worst New Music is about being comfortable enough in our own strengths and insecurities that it makes it impossible for others to use them against us. Any criticism we might get, we've probably already said about ourselves. The most important opinions about an artist’s music should always be their own, but what we've noticed is how affected bands and listeners are by bad music journalism and "tastemakers." And that sucks. Because it's just one dude's shitty opinion versus your own shitty opinion. We want to spur a conversation about music press and its effect on both band's and listener's perception of music; drawing attention to the publicist/PR aspect to releasing music that pulls many strings but doesn't get talked about nearly the same way as say, signing to a label does. We want to talk about it.
Worst New Music is the band’s first time in a studio working soley as the musicians and not the engineers. Both Dispenza and DeLucca have backgrounds in recording, and many more hours have been spent behind the console than in front of it. Having recording their prior releases themselves, they took this opportunity to see what it was like to open their door to collaboration. They chose Evan Bernard and Chris Baglivo at Big Mama’s Recording because they’re another duo, who understand the dynamic of working as a team.
*** Note on pronouns: Rachel Dispenza is genderfluid and uses they/them, and Lauren DeLucca is agender and uses they/them.
TOUR DATES
*Album Release Tour Dates Will Be Announced on 3/20/18*
3/23 - JJ’s Diner - Philadelphia, PA - The Music Matters Project Benefit Show
04/12 - Johnny Brenda’s - Philadelphia, PA - Partner, Curtis Cooper
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