[Cover photo courtesy of Julia Kugel]

Unearthed from Punk band The Coathanger’s 2016 album, Nosebleed Weekend, two tracks will be released as a 7 inch vinyl record by Suicide Squeeze. The two songs offer a window onto The Coathangers’ creative process.

The songs “Hurry” and “Drifter” were both written and demoed during the sessions for their 2016 album, but ultimately shelved, left in the archives. Years later, vocalist Julia Kugel returned to them with fresh ears and found a spark that captured her imagination.

The band recalls that “Hurry” began as an instrument-swap experiment, with Julia on drums, and Stephanie on guitar. It captured something through the “act of not overthinking.”

The Coathangers member, Julia Kugel (aka Crook Kid) explains:

The recordings are raw- but that’s kind of what I like about them. They are songs created within the tension of making an album —midst actualization. There is an excitement and energy that is fresh and experimental in some ways. I was very glad when Suicide Squeeze agreed to put them out on a 7” because it gives an insight into The Coathangers’ writing process. It feels like a bit of time travel.

The song “Drifter,” meanwhile, features an early version of a song that later appeared on the Parasite EP, handled a bit more lightly, and showing the band’s first instincts.

These songs are “sketches made during the chaos of album-making”, and therefore capture the feeling of “experimentation and risk.”