{"id":607,"date":"2020-08-21T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2020\/2020\/08\/21\/drug-couple-releases-psychedelic-ep-choose-your-own-apocalypse\/"},"modified":"2020-08-21T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T18:15:00","slug":"drug-couple-releases-psychedelic-ep-choose-your-own-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2020\/2020\/08\/21\/drug-couple-releases-psychedelic-ep-choose-your-own-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug Couple Releases Psychedelic EP ‘Choose Your Own Apocalypse’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Brooklyn<\/a>-based musical duo Drug Couple<\/a> has released their sophomore EP Choose Your Own Apocalypse<\/em> via Papercup. The EP draws inspiration from classic rock greats, like the Rolling Stones, Liz Phair<\/a>, and REM<\/a>, exploring finding that someone special to spend the end of times with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A real life couple, as well as creative duo, Drug Couple\u2019s music showcases the ongoing dialogue they\u2019re engaged in, and the spirit of deep collaboration that colors their songwriting as well as their lives at home together. The pair released their debut EP Little Hits<\/em> in November of 2019, establishing their unique brand of \u201coff-kilter indie\u201d (The Deli<\/em>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their sophomore EP, Choose Your Own Apocalypse<\/em>, is a collection of songs about finding someone special to share the end-times with. They started writing and recording the EP back in the summer of 2016, as events were leading up to the election of Donald Trump. Drug Couple decided to make an album based around the concept of falling in love mid-apocalypse without fully realizing that\u2019s exactly what they were doing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A meditation on the idea of holding on tight to love during the worst of times, the album (as well as their recently released single \u201cProtest Song<\/a>\u201d) proved to be oddly prescient, written long before 2020 turned out to be one of the scariest and most trying years in recent memory.  Drug Couple hopes that their clairvoyance wasn\u2019t causal, though they\u2019d be lying if they said they didn\u2019t feel partially responsible for the disintegration of the very fabric of our society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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