The Coathangers (Deluxe Edition)

The Coathangers (Deluxe Edition)+ REPRESS LIMITED TO 500 COPIES ON 180G NEON BUTTERFLY VINYL + REMASTERED WITH TWO BONUS TRACKS + EXPANDED ARTWORK BY BRADFORD COX (DEERHUNTER, ATLAS SOUND) + HOUSED IN A GATEFOLD JACKET + DL COUPON + INCLUDES IMMEDIATE DOWNLOAD OF THE ALBUM Fourteen years ago, four young Atlanta women picked up instruments without any prior musical experience or lofty aspirations and decided that they were going to start a band so that they could play a friends

it seems crazy that it’s taken nearly a decade of coexistence and mutual admiration for the Peach State’s two favorite troublemakers to team up on a slab of vinyl

When The Coathangers started up in 2006

Written and Performed by The Coathangers

with both positive and negative energy swirling in a cosmic tapestry of sound

" the stripped-down pop of “I Don’t Think So

they abandoned their status as a duo — a favourite angle of both the media and fans — and recruited Vancouver noise rock great Brody McKnight as a full-time member

It’s an eclectic album inspired by life on the road

Side B of Duct Tape & Shivering Crows contains two covers—a rendition of Lost Sounds’ “Energy Drink and the Long Walk Home” from a split 7” with The Coathangers and a sinister twist on Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box” from Robotic Empire’s In Utero

There’s an enclave of the punk world where the music still sounds like an austere distillation of America’s forlorn dream

probably something of which the band doesn’t take much note

Songs like “Major Cities” tackle the macrocosm of American imperialism with clarity and anger

in/HAL” plays like a transmission caught midair