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DIET CIG TUMMY ACHE

Diet Cig have revealed 'Tummy Ache', the first single from their much-anticipated debut album Swear I'm Good At This out 7 April via Frenchkiss Records. The new cut, which fans will recognise from the duo's raucous live outings, is a typically raw affair based around Alex Luciano's whimsical, conversational vocal work; "My stomach hurts / It's hard to be a punk while wearing a skirt" she cries atop her crunching guitar and the thrashing drums of Noah Bowman. According to the New York pair the track is "all about unpacking the feeling of approaching punk with radical softness, and the struggle when it's not always read as powerful or cool or whatever enough. It's the shout into my pillow when what I'm saying isn't being heard, and a big old I FEEL YA to all the femme folks creating space for themselves in a world that wants to keep us quiet." Here's hoping Diet Cig continue to be anything but quiet. -G.O'B

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