With a reliable blend of aggro noise and heavy groove — and they’re from Boston! go figure! — Death Pesos return next month with new single given the title Couch Glue. While there’s a big part of me that wants to imagine that the song is about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine seasons four through seven, I doubt that’s actually where they’re coming from. Still, anyone who heard their Drug Worship single (posted here) last year knows they’ve got potential, and having heard the new tracks — that is, “Couch Glue” itself and its six-minute B-side, “Evil Eye” — I can affirm that’s still very much the case.

Info came down the PR wire for your perusal and calendar marking:

Death Pesos is releasing a new single, “Couch Glue”, on 4/6/18.

The song was recorded with Alex Garcia-Rivera (American Nightmare, Piebald) at his Mystic Valley Recording Studio in Medford, MA, straight to 24 track, 2 inch tape, like the gods intended.

This is a heavy, fuzzy slab of rock n’ roll for those who insist on leaving their physical reality behind. For those who prefer indica. For those raised by the Super Mario Brothers. And especially for those who just can’t quite seem to get up off the couch to turn the record over.

Death Pesos hearkens back to the golden age of dinosauric riffs and gelatinous, sludgy yet sturdy rhythms. Like a time machine to that unbelievable show you saw back in ’71, if only you could remember the band’s name through the haze of smoke and years gone by.

Featuring cover art by Massachusetts luminary Sean Watroba, the heavy eyelids, perma-smirk and crimson tinted ocular orbs say it all.

Spin this one on repeat and you’ll be glued to your couch ’til next time.

* Features “Evil Eye” as the B-side, a cautionary tale of government surveillance and poisonous, all-seeing robots taking up real estate in your mind

Upcoming dates
Friday, April 6th, with Jessica Rabbit Syndrome • Sundrifter • Canadian Rifle @ Obrien’s • Allston, MA
Tuesday, May 8th with Cult Fiction • Faux Ferocious @ Pink Noise Studio • Somerville, MA
Saturday, May 12th with TBA @ Somerville Porchfest • Somerville, MA

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Death Pesos, “Drug Worship”

There’s a decided haze that’s settled over the newly-posted single from Boston three-piece Death Pesos, and perhaps that’s true to the name of the recorded-to-tape four-and-a-half-minute “Drug Worship,” but the song is no less catchy for it. “Drug Worship” is the first piece of new material Death Pesos have put out since a reformation last year and the first since their 2014 short-LP debut, Moon Violence, and it brings a marked turn in sound. Where the album was more uptempo and dug into a kind of basement-dwelling boogie rock, “Drug Worship” is, well, druggier, less given to shuffle and more to languid flow. What it and the preceding release have in common is a propensity for hooks.

Whether or not “Drug Worship” is indicative of some greater change of approach on the part of Death Pesos, I’ve no idea, but presumably we’ll find out when they release their new vinyl come Fall. In the meantime, the rougher edge in the recording here suits them well and if you’ve got under five minutes and/or a will to name your own price for a cool track you otherwise might not have heard, dig the following:

Death Pesos – “Drug Worship” single release

The band formed in Burlington, VT in 2012, when the founding members (Pete Schluter – guitar, Larry Frisoli – bass, and Chris Egner – drums) met at college. Death Pesos released a full-length, ‘Moon Violence’, in 2014, and played extensively in New England. Geographical separation paused the band from 2014-2016, but Death Pesos rose from a premature burial in 2016 when Mike Reed (drums) joined the band. Since then, we’ve been playing dates in New England (with Endless Boogie / Stephen Malkmus, Black Helicopter, Dyr Faser, Sundrifter). We recently recorded with Alex Garcia-Rivera (of Piebald, Give up the Ghost / American Nightmare, Chrome over Brass, Ascend / Descend) and will release that session on vinyl this fall.

Drug Worship tells the tale of a man who makes a deal with the devil, but experiences no consequences due to his already-woeful life. It was recorded by guitarist Pete Schluter, entirely to tape, and bares the audible stamp of tape compression & saturated tubes.

Death Pesos is:
Larry Frisoli: Bass, Vocals
Pete Schluter: Guitar, Echoplex
Chris Egner: Drums

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Death Pesos, “Drug Worship”