Bleached Announce New EP, Zine Ft. Hayley Williams, Liz Phair, Alice Glass, More

Bleached have announced a new EP, Can You Deal?— out March 3 via Dead Oceans. In addition to the EP, the band’s Jennifer Clavin will release a new zine—also called Can You Deal?—on the same day. It features contributions from Paramore’s Hayley Williams, Liz Phair, Alice Glass, Tegan Quinn, White Lung’s Mish Way, Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie Dupuis, Julien Baker, EMA, and more. The zine is limited to 500 copies and all net proceeds go to Planned Parenthood. Below, listen to the EP’s title track, see the full tracklist, and read Clavin’s statement about the EP.

Bleached’s last LP was 2016’s Welcome the Worms. This spring, they will tour with the Damned; find their dates here.

Can You Deal?:

01 Can You Deal?
02 Flipside
03 Turn to Rage
04 Dear Trouble

Jennifer Clavin:

I create music and art because I need to. To express, to bond, to reconcile, and to connect. And to use my voice. To have it received with such a generic labeling as “girl band” and consistently referenced as “female fronted” is insulting and reductive. The title track to this EP, “Can You Deal?” is about this experience. Last year we released a deeply personal full length album titled Welcome the Worms. It was a record about being in an emotionally abusive relationship. It was a record about getting spun out on drugs and alcohol. It was a record about totally losing myself in order to find myself. It was also our most ambitious body of work yet, with guitar work and guitar sounds and production we had only dreamed of until then. And yet to this day I am still fielding interview questions that have more to do with my gender than with the art I am creating. Somehow the conversation usually derails into some variation of the following question: “What is it like to be a girl in a rock band?”. And the ensuing story will define us based on our sex. Why is gender pointed out in nearly all coverage of our band? Labeling me as a woman in a band just puts me in a box, and doesn’t allow everything else I am to be seen and heard. It’s 2017, Can You Deal with women playing rock and roll yet?

via Sam Sodomsky