Revamped and fully realized Austin punk quartet PleasureVenom breaks down their debut.
Eight years in the making, Pleasure Venom has certainly trekked far beyond the physical garage. Stairsteps to the Austin band's first full-length,, released last week, paint a comprehensive punk-phenom picture. Try 2019 opening dates for Nineties alt standards Garbage, local gigs with Against Me! and Linda Perry, alongside a recent ACL Fest first.
Of Austin's Black punk scene a decade ago, she says:"It was just me, Black Mercy, and BLXPLTN." After hopping across various punk bands and completing a brief run as a trumpet player/backup vocalist for Danny Price & the Heist, Campbell was ready to take charge of her music. Enter Pleasure Venom, the experimental garage punk fourpiece she founded in 2014.
"I saw this whole progression," says longtime PV supporter Emmert."Audrey and Thomas are the driving forces. I was thinking, 'I don't want to keep playing music and stuff.' [But] having some known commodities in Audrey and Thomas, I was like, 'I would definitely like to be involved in that.'" Rounding up singles of the past few years"We Get What You Deserve" and"Severed Ties" – the latter produced by Frenchie Smith alongside"Lose It!" –captures Pleasure Venom's live-wire trajectory with majority production by Elliott Frazier. Campbell describes the Ringo Deathstarr singer, who has worked closely with the band since their 2018 self-titled EP, as a"secret fifth member.
"I poured all of that into music," he says."I was recording just tons and tons of guitar songs. There were a few where I said, 'Hey, this would be really badass with Audrey, Thomas, and Jordan.' Everything just flowed. The four of us had this synergy together, and it was really cathartic to get all this emotion out and shed old skin.
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