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Episodic

by DRUGS

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  • Record/Vinyl

    DRUGS - Episodic - debut 12" LP
    • Limited edition! We have less than 100! Don't miss out!

    >>> Listen to and Buy the digital album here <<<
    drugstheband.bandcamp.com/album/episodic

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Bio:
Before Drugs, Joel Jasper and J.P. Bendzinski were playing in everyone else’s band, but their own. In 2018 they rented a small practice room in Long Beach to make space for their own ideas and began writing and self-recording Episodic. With help from some of their favorite musical weirdos, they became the local scene’s preeminent avant-garde noise-rock band.

In a sea of gentle singer-songwriters and derivative rock, Drugs is a safe haven. “It’s for the freaks,” says Jasper, the band’s main lyricist and songwriter. Creating a terrain so unruly and jagged it defies the edifice of the traditional linear songwriting form in favor of a more abstract stream of consciousness style. “I don’t want anyone to be able to predict what’s coming next unless they’ve listened to the song before.” Jasper’s desire for the mercurial is shared by Bendzinski, who says they didn’t “set out to make anything intentionally,” proving Drugs’ Episodic was as much an act of discovery for them as it is for the listener.

Drugs’ efforts to venture into new territory echo the sentiments of mutant predecessors like DEVO, The Who, Mothers of Invention, and Deerhoof while still retaining some hints of Paul McCartney, Durruti Column, and Prefab Sprout to create something that can only be described as Yacht-Punk. Despite their spontaneity and free-wheelin’ creative process, there’s one thing Drugs knows for certain, says Jasper, “I want to freak people out.”

Episodic is scheduled to freak you out Summer 2020.

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• • • DIGITAL ALBUM • • •
Episodic released on all digital formats via Park The Van
www.parkthevan.com/label/drugs
ffm.to/episodic


• • • MUSIC VIDEOS • • •
Paralyzed
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QOY5GLex0s&feature=emb_logo

A Twist of the Stomach
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2DJjDHm8ME

Try Me
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho-e3TGZ8i4&feature=emb_title


• • • LINKS • • •
porchpartyrecords.com/drugs

facebook.com/drugs

instagram.com/drugs

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released September 25, 2020

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Porch Party Records exists to release music and promote shows with our friends all over California.

In 2009, we began hosting shows and letting bands record and practice at our house. We all chill on our porch listening to great records with a tangled web of dozens of bands from up and down the coast. Now we make records and cassettes. Let's have some fun. ... more

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