PRAISE FOR THE DEVIL YOU KNOW:
“The Devil You Know is a collection of glorious cassette-tape jams with unfussy production, tight melodies, and precise vocal harmonies.” – Pitchfork
“The Devil You Know is a vital and exciting record – one which gathers up the past and pointedly thrusts it into the present. Topics like institutionalised evil, war and greed are always valid targets and The Coathangers go for the throat – and draw blood – pleasingly and memorably at every opportunity. This should be their moment of glory.” – Drowned in Sound
“The Coathangers infuse every note they play with an intense energy that bristles with anger, attitude, and snarky humor.” – New Noise
SHOP THE DEVIL YOU KNOW REPRESS ON ‘BIMBO IN LIMBO’ VINYL
In their early years, Atlanta trio The Coathangers were very much of the classic punk ethos—the band was a live entity, and the records were a document of the charisma and chaos projected from stage. But after 12 years of relentlessly touring on a steady flow of EPs and LPs, The Coathangers finally took a moment to recalibrate before diving into the creation of their sixth studio album The Devil You Know. The band regrouped to make an album that captures all the vitality of their early years while honing their individual strengths into new communal achievements. It’s a record that takes their established takes on vitriolic punk, playful house-party anthems, and heartworn ballads and melds them into a new sound that retains all their former live show glories while revealing a new level of songwriting and nuance. “The writing process was done with an open heart,” says guitarist/vocalist Julia Kugel. “Everything that came before had to go away. And we started there, at ground zero.” With each album, you could hear the individual songwriters honing their style. But with The Devil You Know, it feels like we’re hearing the first Coathangers record written as a true unit.
Suicide Squeeze Records is excited to offer The Coathangers’ repress of The Devil You Know on limited-edition color-in-color-out variant of coke bottle green (out) and magenta (in) vinyl. Limited edition of 500 copies. Includes a download card.
