Description
Title: Hurry (Demo) B/W Drifter (Demo) – Orange
Artist: The Coathangers
Label: Suicide Squeeze
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 803238024677
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2025-10-31
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: COLORED VINYL, ORANGE
Unearthed from the margins of Nosebleed Weekend, these two tracks offer a raw, revealing glimpse into The Coathangers’ creative process, capturing a band mid-stride, sorting through instinct and intention. “Hurry” and “Drifter” were both written and demoed during the sessions for that record but ultimately shelved, left to simmer in the archives. Years later, vocalist Julia Kugel returned to them with fresh ears and found something vital: a looseness, a spark.”Hurry” began as an instrument-swap experiment-Julia on drums, Stephanie on guitar-with a beat-up charm and feral momentum. It’s rhythm section is propulsive, the guitars overdriven and wiry, the vocals echoing with a kind of private urgency. It doesn’t Polish itself up, and that’s the point, it feels like a band finding something new in the act of not overthinking. “Drifter,” meanwhile, features an early version of a song that later appeared on the Parasite EP, this time with a lighter step-the distortion dialed back just enough to let the vocal melody lean forward, more assured. It feels like a bit of time travel to the band’s rawest instincts. There’s an immediacy to both tracks, sketches made during the chaos of album-making, alive with experimentation and risk. Pressed to 7″ by Suicide Squeeze, the tracks are less about perfection and more about process: evidence of the Coathangers’ ability to trust their guts, and let things breathe.
Tracks:
1.1 Hurry (Demo)
1.2 Drifter (Demo)
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