GROUPIE - Ephemeral - BRAND NEW CASSETTE TAPE

The album is comprised of flower petals, a metaphor for the album as a whole - at once pronounced yet delicate, feminine, ephemeral. The imagery stemmed from ‘Industry’, where Kossakowski keeps depression at bay by wandering through the flower block in Manhattan on 28th St., hoping that the feminine act of buying flowers will make her feel more at home.

Other notable tracks include the anthemic ‘No Hands’, a song dedicated to Healy and Kossakowski’s friendship and representative of their almost cosmic connection. They were collaboratively songwriting in their practice space and needed some lyrics. They’d both recently read Patti Smith’s M Train, and when they compared notebooks, they realized they’d both written lyrics about the exact same passage—“a faceless clock with no hands”, which then became the first and second verses of the song. Meanwhile, the fierce, post-punky ‘Poor You’, is the first song the band ever wrote. It charts Kossakowski’s uprooting experience of sexual harassment at her job, and her subsequent fantasies about her abuser being brought to adequate justice.

“We try to digest complex issues through music and hope that our music offers a similar catharsis for our listeners,” says Ashley. Groupie invites you to not only listen, but to scream alongside them.