Photo by Ebru Yildiz

2024 is starting off in a very feral guitar rock-forward way that has these pages thinking about how the last time we’d heard the year in music’s energy shape up so aggressively right off the bat was a whole decade ago. Maybe that’s because Pissed Jeans, who’d released the great Honeys in 2013, are back at it again with their sixth full-length effort, Half Divorced. Following the early singles “Moving On” and “Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars In Debt” that leaned into deprecation with grungy, melodic diggers, the acerbic Philly punk band turn it back up a few notches with something leaner, meaner, and noisier in the head of the existential tussle with “Cling to a Poisoned Dream”. Here, Matt Korvette fuels frenzy into the thought that American aspirations are all delusions at this stage in the game as if it’s killing him from the inside out. And yet, he keeps going to the well drinking it in.

Directed by: Joe Stakun

Pissed Jeans’ Half Divorced will be released March 1st on Sub Pop.