* PREORDER * LUNG - The Swankeeper LP

* PREORDER * expected to arrive early July

Lung, the Cincinnati-based duo of cellist/vocalist Kate Wakefield and drummer Daisy Caplan (formerly of Foxy Shazam), release their fifth album via Feel It Records.

First single from the album, “The Mattress (canvas)”, is one of the most abrasive songs you’ll ever hear that features a cello as its lead instrument. It’s an abrasive, minimalist but catchy take on noise rock that’s piercing and heavy as hell, pairing the bluesy, gothic sensibility of PJ Harvey in the mid-’90s with an even pricklier and doomier sensibility. It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that they’ve shared the stage with The Jesus Lizard, because this thing roars with muscle and menace.

Wakefield said about the new single in a statement, “The song deals with the darker sides of our psyche that relish in burning our lives down. The secret parts of us that love to fall apart. And the conflicting emotions and worlds we go to as a result.”