With Just A Hint Of Mayhem

Cumgirl8 is an American post-punk band and multi-media collective based in Manhattan, New York. They came together (no pun intended) in 2019 by Lida Fox, Veronika Vilim, Avishag Cohen Rodrigues, and Chase Lombardo (a.k.a. Chase Noelle). According to themselves, they are a “sex-positive alien amoeba entity,” they are artists in music, film, publishing, and fashion. Their music apparently functions as an “outlet [for] repressed and pent-up emotions” which they use to challenge the patriarchy and capitalism. They have just released their second album, ‘The 8th Cumming’ which is monumentally weird, but in a good way. It feels like 70s punk, 70s disco, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Lady Gaga, and Madonna in her full-on dance phase climbed into the conjugal bed together and produced countless offspring which matured into Cumgirl8 songs. As for the band, well I think it is obvious that they really are a sex-positive alien amoeba entity.

The album opens with “Karma Police”, not the Radiohead track, but a banging Cumgirl8 original which kicks off with a nursery rhyme style refrain and then goes all Pete Burns with a mountainous Hi-Energy beat. This is how disco might sound on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Next is the previous single “ahhhh!hhhh! (i don’t wanna go)” which storms along like someone has spliced Andrea True Connection and early Human League into a Frankenstein of sublime dance pop. “Mercy” will be a huge hit on goth nights with its deeply dark pop vibe. If ever a song was crying out for a mega club mix it is “Hysteria!” it would be a world-straddling remix. It might have time travelled from the Blitz Club in 1979. The Blitz Kids would have loved it. Some freaky, weird, backward masking and spoken word shenanigans open “uti, ” an infectious electro, heavy metal workout. Has anyone ever written a song about a urinary tract infection before? Well, I assume that is the subject matter.

There is a subtle slowed-down New Order ghost hovering all over “Simulation” which is perhaps the least frenetic track on the album. Guitarwise there are still some New Order sprinkles in “Girls Don’t Try” which also shows some homage to the Cure. I would love to hear Robert Smith duet with Cumgirl8 on this tune. Giorgio Moroder would have been proud of “iBerry” which has a relentless synth riff and some awesome percussion. A drum sound like industrial metronomic pistons introduces “ny winter” which is overlaid with dark angelic ethereal vocals. The album closes with the current single “Something New” which gallops along like a newly tamed wild horse, but one that you feel might run wild again at any moment. Who are Cumgirl8 really? I have no idea, but they are far more alien than David Bowie ever was and according to their record label 4AD “cumgirl8 met in a sex chat 8000 years ago in another metaverse“. That sounds entirely feasible to me. Maybe they are the angry daughters of Thomas Jerome Newton and they have travelled here from their home planet Anthea to find him. This is a great band, a great album and the future of interplanetary pop and rock. Embrace the weird, embrace the alien!

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