Our music industry would be nothing without its backbone, called the underground, and no music scene in America goes harder than New York. It has been ten years since Couch Slut kicked in the heads of the intimate DIY eclectic with their album My Life As A Woman. There’s no more profound guide I’d rather aid my ears in the direction of militaristic perspective than Megan Osztrosits.
Megan is by far one of the most prolific and beautiful frontwomen in heavy music. She has a one-track mind for setting fire to the entire universe where women are not heard as they project the echo chamber of darkness that becomes their violated minds. She represents souls who have the power to burn down the city but choose not to for fear the comfort and stability they’ve built in the electric cells of vibrating music venues would be lost if not forgotten.
When Couch Slut came into the live scene in 2014, they shook the walls of Brooklyn’s most iconic venues; The Acheron, Silent Barn, and Death by Audio, just to name a few. They curated profound chapters not long before every single one closed their book. The teamwork they put into pushing the scene to continue on wherever they could represents such a golden age of dedication to the realm where music truly pumps the most blood.
This reissued album was initially self-produced and affiliated with Handshake Inc at its release point but has since been adopted by Gilead Media, where it will be presented on December 6th in unique vinyl wrapped in a paper bag and with revision from English producer Matt Colton (the man behind the mastering of Coldplay, Muse, Erasure… I could keep going).
The opening track “Little Girl Things” takes you on a brisk Brooklyn street walk of poetic mockery of the word submissive. Every word marginalizes the self-righteous ambiguity of most metal core kingpins who make it seem like women are only good for blow jobs in the venue bathroom.
The most controversial track on the album, “Rape Kit,” sheds light on a graphic reality that can’t be ignored about the nature of many unbridled and morally lacking men on the level of sometimes ferocious actions where enforcing their sensory addicted brains is concerned, and what we all know is that just about every girl has experienced it; one way or another. However, the liberating part isn’t just knowing that we’re not alone but that there is someone with a powerful voice and violent reactions that will rip into the airwaves of those fantasies and give those types of men a reason to think twice about their nature.
The band has brought forth the vivid darkness of slam poetry and freedom of fruitful vulgarity in a well-picked bouquet of the best parts of their discography for this anniversary album. It gives you the perfect collection of their vitriol malcontent in the world of human sexuality. A must-have.
Couch Slut My Life As A Woman – 10th Anniversary Remaster is available to order at this location.
