Philadelphia hardcore and punk supergroup Open City announced the release of their latest album, Hands in the Honey Jar, which will be out on October 6 on queer, independent, punk label Get Better Records. Open City features Rachel Rubino of Bridge & Tunnel; Dan Yemin of Paint It Black, Lifetime, and Kid Dynamite; Andy Nelson of Ceremony and Paint It Black; and Chris Wilson of Titus Andronicus, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, and Hammered Hulls. Along with the announcement of the album came the first single “Return Your Stolen Property is Theft.”
Speaking about the new album, vocalist Rubino says, “The intent for any album this band has created has always been to put together a collection of songs that hit hard, but also touch on a wide range of creative influence. I love Hatebreed as much as I love Beyoncé as much as I love Pissed Jeans as much as I love Bikini Kill, does that give you a reference for my contribution?”
Guitarist Dan Yemin expanded a little bit on the album’s songwriting. “From a songwriting perspective we were looking for this record to be rendered from a more expanded palette of influences, while at the same time being more stripped-down sonically. While the band continues to exist in the context of a reverence for the basement epiphanies of the golden age of DIY hardcore punk, we were also making room for U.K. post-punk influences and some of the more hypnotic and repetitive tactics utilized by Lungfish and Unwound.”
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