Foursome cumgirl8 – Veronika Vilim (guitar), Chase Lombardo (drums), Lida Fox (bass), and Avishag Rodrigues (guitar) – has announced their new album ‘8th cumming‘. The album will be released on October 4 via 4AD/Beggars. ‘8th cumming’ follows their previous self-titled introductory EP (2020), RIPcumgirl8 EP (2021) and their first EP on 4AD, ‘phantasea pharm’ (2023).
With the announcement of the album, cumgirl8 shares the single ‘Karma Police‘, with accompanying visualizer. With this song the band does not deliver a Radiohead cover, but a chaotic tour story of missed flights and stolen luggage, delivered with a flood of angular, shimmering keys, driving, swirling riffs and darkwave nightclub whispers comparable to Gina X, Essential Logic and Delta 5. Building on the band’s historic ‘gothic pop and scuzzy dance-punk studded with horny prose’ (Pitchfork), the song provides a fluorescent snapshot of their recent US headline shows, global festival appearances and support slots for Le Tigre, L7 and Bratmobile.
In November cumgirl8 will visit the Netherlands for the shows below:
November 19 – Pier15 Skatepark, Breda
November 20 – Vera, Groningen
November 21 – Paradiso, Amsterdam
‘the 8th cumming‘ was recorded live and completely analogue. The album is rooted in a philosophy close to the band’s heart: cyberfeminism, which explores the relationship between humans and machines, nature and technology. Within this context, the album aims to explore our relationships with the online and physical world from an apocalyptic perspective, even down to the artwork in which the band wear slime-covered futuristic clothing in a muted, murky landscape (representative of an inevitable ‘post-reality’ consisting of our deteriorating natural ecosystem and the dissolution of consciousness led by artificial intelligence). Historically, they have demonstrated their political influence through outspoken activism (including protesting SXSW 2024), innuendo-infused lyrics, adventurous stage presences supported by the band’s in-house costumes, and Plan C (medical abortion) pills to accompany the merch -table. This current iteration of the band has fundamentally taken things to the next level, unafraid to introduce listeners to complicated themes while exploring their creative limits and looking within.
The album’s tracklist varies sonically between dark and light, traveling intergalactically between distorted, gothic industrialism, similar to the retro-horror soundtracks of John Carpenter, to suspenseful and sometimes romantic synth-wave reminiscent of Chris & Cosey or Suicide, and gritty post-punk experimentalisms. A handful of musical references the band listened to during their writing sessions include Miss Kittin, Delta 5, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Throbbing Gristle, ESG, Desire, Ladytron, Deli Girls, Nine Inch Nails, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Peaches, Björk, LustsickPuppy, Nite Fleit, White Town (specifically “Your Woman”), and Girl Pusher – nods to each of these can be seen in small doses throughout the album.
Tracklist ‘8th cumming’
1. Karma Police
2. ahhhh!hhhh! (i don’t want to go)
3. mercy
4. hysteria
5. UTI
6. simulation
7. girls don’t try
8. iBerry
9. ny winter
10. something new
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