“SEX BEAT” PREMIERE AT VOGUE
Back in 2009, Suicide Squeeze Records labelmates These Arms Are Snakes and The Coathangers teamed up for a series of tour dates on the East Coast. It was a perfect pairing: The Coathangers’ jagged catabolic garage rock and These Arms Are Snakes bleary and blighted artcore made for an evening of celebratory chaos. But These Arms Are Snakes’ seven-year run came to an abrupt end a few months later, leaving a final unfinished recording–a cover of Lost Sounds’ “Energy Drink & The Long Walk Home”–gathering dust in the vaults. In the five years since the Snakes’ dissolution, The Coathangers have toured relentlessly on their three albums for Suicide Squeeze; releasing a slew of split 7"s with various road comrades along the way. Though These Arms Are Snakes remain broken up, the finishing touches on “Energy Drink” were finally wrapped up in 2014, and it seemed only appropriate to pair the song with a track from their old tourmates. The Coathangers are still hard at work touring on their highly lauded album from earlier this year, Suck My Shirt, but they found the time to counterbalance the Snakes’ Lost Sounds cover with their take on The Gun Club’s “Sex Beat”. Suicide Squeeze is proud to release the split single worldwide on a limited vinyl run of 1,000 (clear w/ red and black splatter) 7"s with an accompanying download code. The songs are also available digitally.
Listen/Post: “Sex Beat” (Gun Club cover) by The Coathangers
Cover art by: blackcattips
The Coathangers / These Arms Are Snakes
“Sex Beat b/w Energy Drink and The Long Walk Home”
December 2, 2014
A. The Coathangers “Sex Beat” (Gun Club cover)
AA. These Arms Are Snakes “Energy Drink and The Long Walk Home” (Lost Sounds cover)
