7” EP with Comic book Thrilling Cardiff-based noisepop group Joanna Gruesome have teamed up with their American cousins Perfect Pussy to release a remarkable four song split 7″ EP. The release comes packaged in a 24-page comic book, illustrated by cartoonist Phil McAndrew (brother of Perfect Pussy’s guitarist Ray McAndrew). The heroine in McAndrew’s comic is a “split” between Joanna Gruesome front woman Alanna McArdle and Meredith Graves of Perfect Pussy, who battles misogynists, online trolls and haters everywhere. The two tracks here follow Joanna Gruesome’s recently released split EP with Trust Fund and represent some of the first new material to be heard from the band since the release of “Weird Sister” and, in lead track “Psykick Espionage” a taste of their new album to be released in the first half of 2015. Their second track “…And Keep Reaching for Those Stars” is a cover of a song by 90s US emo band I Hate Myself. Veiled beneath layers of exquisitely abrasive noise, front-woman of Perfect Pussy Meredith Graves’ lyrics are disarming, brutally honest and poetic, possessing a feverish intensity that can only be matched by her electric stage presence. On this EP Perfect Pussy cover Björk’s old band the Sugarcubes’ “Leash Called Love” and also contribute the new track “Adult World (The Secret)”.

“Joanna Gruesome have made one of the most thrilling gut-punches of a debut album you will hear all year.” NME

“Singer Meredith Graves continues to spit fire while guitars torch the earth around her… Perfect Pussy demand a commitment from their audience that is as total, full-blooded, and unwavering as their own” Pitchfork