photos taken by Star Child at the Irish, Kearny, NJ 8-16-10.
Trophy Wife is a heavy, grungy two-piece that play loud. The Philadelphia based pair, formerly from Washington D.C., just put out a killer record on 307 Knox Records called Patience Fury. It's an album that battles the calm with the storm. It's a headbanger and simply rips, but the lyrics get you, too. Prepare to get your face melted by drummer Katy Otto and guitarist Diane Foglizzo. Yeah, it's that kind of album.
Live the band play small D.I.Y spaces, on the floor, intimate, close, facing each other, and sing together at times. Check out "Sister Outsider" on the band's MySpace. The title is a reference to activist, feminist, and socialist Audre Lordre's essays and speeches of the same name. The work discusses the struggles of marginalized persons. The song in a broad sense is about realizing that we need to speak out about the things that matter and not be quiet just because we're told to. Yes, Trophy Wife write from a very personal experience, so obviously, it connects well to queers, punks, and feminists, like the linear notes indicate. But I think the music itself is accessible anyone open to listen. If you dig bands like L7, Nirvana, Lightning Bolt, Japandroids, then meet Trophy Wife. If not, listen too!
Patience Fury is available here. See below for an excerpt of an interview with Otto for Tom Tom Magazine on the band's name and new record, the interaction with her guitarist live, her drumming, singing lyrics in other languages, and much more!
Excerpt of Tom Tom interview written by drummer Katy Otto:
Trophy Wife is a heavy, grungy two-piece that play loud. The Philadelphia based pair, formerly from Washington D.C., just put out a killer record on 307 Knox Records called Patience Fury. It's an album that battles the calm with the storm. It's a headbanger and simply rips, but the lyrics get you, too. Prepare to get your face melted by drummer Katy Otto and guitarist Diane Foglizzo. Yeah, it's that kind of album.
Live the band play small D.I.Y spaces, on the floor, intimate, close, facing each other, and sing together at times. Check out "Sister Outsider" on the band's MySpace. The title is a reference to activist, feminist, and socialist Audre Lordre's essays and speeches of the same name. The work discusses the struggles of marginalized persons. The song in a broad sense is about realizing that we need to speak out about the things that matter and not be quiet just because we're told to. Yes, Trophy Wife write from a very personal experience, so obviously, it connects well to queers, punks, and feminists, like the linear notes indicate. But I think the music itself is accessible anyone open to listen. If you dig bands like L7, Nirvana, Lightning Bolt, Japandroids, then meet Trophy Wife. If not, listen too!
Patience Fury is available here. See below for an excerpt of an interview with Otto for Tom Tom Magazine on the band's name and new record, the interaction with her guitarist live, her drumming, singing lyrics in other languages, and much more!
Excerpt of Tom Tom interview written by drummer Katy Otto:
The name Trophy Wife basically for me was a smirk at the concept in general of women in a detached, object role. I want a world of women and girls as subjects. And subjecthood, with all its painful trappings, pitfalls, and machinations, is exactly why we do this band. It IS more than just a band to us. When we lived apart, it was a way to keep our dialogue going. We have intense, and sometimes jarring, important conversations to try to make sense of the world. This band is the most personal music I have ever made. We write lyrics together, in practice – no matter how long it takes – and describe the reasons why we opted to write lyrics to each other. I have never had that degree of transparency with another person before.
The music is heavy and loud and gives us permission to say the things that are hard to say. It needs to be. I don’t think there is any separation between Diane and me and that music. It is our embodiment of our friendship and desire to consistently be in dialogue with one another. At some point touring last year, we made the decision to only play shows facing each other, because it was the best way to enact that energy. We have parts of our songs that really can only work if we are making eye contact and fully engaged. Otherwise, I do not think we pull of what we are trying to do.
We are putting out a new record, our first full length, on 307 Knox this summer called Patience Fury. They are two words, but in the case of our album, they are a compound thought. They need one another. That is a lot of what Trophy Wife is about. Recording this album with our friend Devin Ocampo (Medications, Faraquet, Smart Went Crazy) was an emotional process, and he was a fantastic midwife in it. We want to stretch our limits with this band. I am excited that we will tour a great deal in the upcoming months. We are also writing a host of new songs. Sometimes, to do this, we have to draw, or use a whiteboard. Every set of lyrics remains in an ongoing discussion. We are both process-oriented people, so I think this is a good space and culture we have established for ourselves. Additionally, we have lyrics in French, and now German, to reflect our ancestry, and because sometimes English just isn’t enough...
We make music to survive and to tell our version of a story. Our LP/CD will come with a download card that can be planted will grow into flowers. This is exciting to us -we want to write songs that seed. We also want to hear from people interested in any of the ideas we put out and welcome communication. -- from Tom Tom Magazine Interview
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