Fast rising Manchester band Duvet announce their debut 7” single, ‘Girlcow’ / ‘Sweaty Dog’, via Fear of Missing Out Records. First forming in 2022, Duvet’s jagged post punk tales conjure sleazy cowboys and grotty indie discos in Northern England. The band’s debut offering, ‘Clown Clown Clown’, cut a hard-hitting figure of scabrous riot grrrl energy in thrall to the 1990s. Duvet assembled their current line-up of vocalist Grace Walkden, guitarists Tasmin Stephens and Seth Lloyd, bassist Jimmi Brown and drummer Victoria Melling and settled on a post-punk sound indebted to the genre’s new wave of artists like Shame, Warmduchser and Viagra Boys. Lead single ‘Girlcow’ is flecked with specks of noisy grunge and was written from the perspective of “a pervy cowboy.” The haunting track showcases the band’s knack for crafting stories, as they flip the script and hand over the narrative reins to a female protagonist. “We all mutually find cowboys quite funny,” offers Tasmin Stephens. “I think we all live through cowboys – somehow.” On the flipside, ‘Sweaty Dog’ channels the band’s cider-drenched commitment to having a good time. The propulsive track is “basically just about being really sweaty and dancing”, according to Walkden. Meanwhile, guitarist Seth Lloyd has designs on transforming ‘Sweaty Dog’ into a dance. “There are sweaty dogs inside all of us,” he jokes. Available to independent retailers on 7” single.