The latest album from Portland band Summer Cannibals is a work of punk-pop defiance. Their original album had been finished for over a year, but after the end of what she calls a "manipulative personal and creative relationship," frontwoman Jessica Boudreaux decided to scrap the LP and start fresh. “We had to sacrifice an album we’d worked hard on so that someone abusive and manipulative couldn’t benefit from it,” she said, via a press release.
Recorded over the span of two weeks, working 14-hour days, the fourth LP from Summer Cannibals is a triumph, with its title track setting the mood.
“Writing this record and making it ourselves was about liberation from the parts of an industry that have protected abusers for way too long, and about saying fuck you to the people who have invalidated my and so many others’ experiences of abuse,” says Boudreaux. “It’s about doing the right thing, even when it’s terrifying.”
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