We’ll admit that we don’t know too much about Siouxie & the Skunks beyond the rather peculiar moniker, and that by itself is a relatively exciting thing in our age of information overload. But what we do know is this: The Italian art-punk band is set to release new album called Songs about Cuddles next week (March 23) via Wild Honey Records, and with it comes a stomper of a serrated smoke dance in “Sartoria” that sounds like the greatest unknown post-punk song from 1983 that now costs a rent payment to own on first-pressing vinyl.
“When we wrote ‘Sartoria’ we actually had a tailor’s shop,” the band writes on Insta. “It was the scene of rehearsals, concerts, a thousand hours of work and filming and a thousand cigarettes. It did not work. But then again the only way you can make a mistake is to mess something up. If nothing happens, we’re dead. And there is no greater luck than having the chance to do something.”
Honestly, we’re not even sure this band is real, and that’s possibly the surest sign of something existing in this batshit 2024. Maybe Siouxie & the Skunks are here to save us, maybe Siouxie & the Skunks aren’t here at all, maybe this is simply the soundtrack playing inside the time machine we’ve all been waiting for.
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