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The Julie Ruin announce new album
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 14 April 2016
The Julie Ruin have announced that they will release their new album, ‘Hit Reset’, through Hardly Art on 8 Jul. The record is the follow-up to 2013’s ‘Run Fast’, and the band’s first album since the release of ‘The Punk Singer’, the documentary about frontwoman Kathleen Hanna.
Also the former frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, Hanna says of the new album from her current outfit: “I was way more honest lyrically on this record because we’d been on the road together and I felt more confident taking risks in front of my bandmates. I’ve written about my personal bouts with illness, abuse, sexism and how hard it is for me to walk away from people even when they are toxic Tasmanian Devils before, but not in this way”.
Here’s the first track to be released from the album, ‘I Decide’:
In other Kathleen Hanna-related news, Bikini Kill’s 1992 album ‘Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah’ will be re-issued through Newbury Comics this week. Further details here.
