Drug Church: Prude LP

Drug Church have returned! Today, punk’s most beloved agitators are announcing their new album, PRUDE, due out October 4th from Pure Noise Records. For over a decade Drug Church have been building a strong case that they’re the best loud guitar band in the game, and PRUDE feels like it just might be the undeniable proof. PRUDE is a lean 28 minutes of hardcore aggression and ’90s alternative hooks that’s bursting at the seams with personality, irreverence, and heart. It’s a record that’s so instantly satisfying that it almost belies what a unexpected feat it is for a prickly, hard-to-pigeonhole punk band from Albany, NY to become one of the most consistently crowd-pleasing outfits on planet earth. PRUDE follows 2022’s Hygiene, an album that drew praise from the likes of Pitchfork, NPR, The FADER, and Rolling Stone, landed on year-end lists from Vogue, Stereogum, SPIN, BrooklynVegan, Revolver, Bandcamp, and many more), and catapulted Drug Church from cult favorites to the ranks of the most exciting up-and-coming bands in aggressive music. Recorded/produced by longtime collaborator, Jon Markson, PRUDE not only meets the extremely high bar set by Drug Church’s previous work, it manages to exceed it. Never content to rest on their laurels, the band have pushed their key elements—eye-popping aggression, bulletproof melodies, and incisive lyrics—to even greater heights, and discovered more than a few new tricks along the way. There’s only one band that sounds like Drug Church, and thankfully they’re extremely good at being themselves.