Mississippi experimental punk outfit have announced a new EP, No Separation, which is due May 23 via Convulse. The band’s Nick Panella co-produced the five-track effort with Show Me the Body’s Julian Cashwann Pratt and Harlan Steel. It’s led by the single ‘Angel’, a song as catchy as their recent collaboration with power-pop wizard Dazy, ‘It’s Only a Secret’. Check out director Alex Thiel‘s video for it below.
“Most of our music is genuinely inspired by our relationships to each other,” Panella said in a press release. “We bring together disparate musical philosophies and try to marry them and create our own community that can accept those differences and actually thrive as a result of them. Originality ultimately isn’t about creating something new as much as it’s about navigating your own inner world and the inner world’s of those directly around you until you’ve learned something that hasn’t been learned before.”
“We met up with Show Me the Body in LA while we were on tour, and we went to visit this spooky studio where they were doing a ‘writing camp,’” bassist Randy Reilly added. “We didn’t even know what that was — ain’t nobody in Hattiesburg doing a writing camp. But it ended up being this really strange and cool experience, and we showed Julian and Harlan some of what we were working on. Julian hit the ground running and started offering feedback right away, so when it came time to work on the EP we remembered that and thought it was something worth exploring more.”
Commenting on ‘Angel’, singer Deedee said: “It’s definitely different from the way I would usually write for the band. It’s something you can sing along to, but it’s also something that maybe you’re saying to yourself that feels good — some positive thinking. I felt like we succeeded at bringing poppier elements into our space and making them our own instead of trying to bring what we do into a pop space.”
MSPAINT’s debut album, Post-American, came out in 2023. Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with MSPAINT.
No Separation EP Cover Artwork:
No Separation EP Tracklist:
1. Drift
2. Wildfire
3. Surveillance
4. No Separation
5. Angel
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