Here’s our fucking lede: Mannequin Pussy just released a relentless new song like five seconds ago, and it’s going right into the Song of the Year 2023 consideration pile. Holy shit it rips.
This thrashing new tune is called “I Got Heaven,” and it serves as the first taste of new material from Marisa Dabice’s Philadelphia band. It was produced by John Congleton, and arrives today (August 28) via Epitaph with a lively video directed by Mason Mercer and Anthony Miralles.
Underneath all that fury and intensity is a justifiable reason for it, as Dabice explains rather thoroughly.
“‘I Got Heaven’ is a song intended to merge the sacred and the profane and to serve as a reminder that we are all perfect exactly as we have been made and that no one gets to decide how a life should or should not be lived,” she says in a statement. “Heaven is here on a planet that gave us everything we needed to survive. Heaven is in the plants and in the water and in the animals who we share this world with. Heaven is inside of me and inside of you. The weaponization of Christianity for political means, for individual profit and power, as a tool to intentionally divide us is one of the greatest threats to our modern world and a threat to our ability to find solidarity through love. To allow the hatred and the violence and the noise to rise is to reject our sacred purpose as individuals, which is simply to love.”
This one should sound wild in venues near and far, and Mannequin Pussy hit the road this fall for a North American tour that plays The Palladium in Worcester on September 24 alongside Movements, Softcult and Heart to Gold.
Rage along with “I Got Heaven” below.