Track of the Day: Perfect Pussy - "III"

When the internet sends you bands, check them out. In the past few days, Perfect Pussy has been popping up around various news feeds, social media, and other ways the net pumps information into my little corner of the 'net verse. Insert joke about band name and what sites I must be looking at here. The group's "Rising" feature on Pitchfork back in October, details the Syracuse-based group's amalgamation of post-Structuralism, post-feminism, and brutal honesty in it's distortion driven demo tape, available on the group's bandcamp page. Mike Watt once famously said "punk is what you make it," and Perfect Pussy's radical tape shows what's possible for musicians making punk. Unflinchingly intelligent, I have lost all desire for feeling, is a wonderful contradiction. It's title reads like a conceptual art composition while evincing some of the most feeling music I've heard recently. There's blood in these songs and as "III," shows more than its fair share of intriguing musicality and uncompromising rocking. This sort of haute composition and DIY spirit has been missing from indie recently. I'm glad to see that it's back.