by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
While Chris Gervais (drums, vocals) has been busy over the past few months with a slew of Dog Park releases, he’s returned focus once more to Divorce Cop, the Portland, Maine based trio he shares with Brock Ginther (guitar, vocals) and Anthony Bitetti (bass). After a set of promising EPs and singles released last year, the band are ready to share their full length debut, My Other Shirt Is — Actually Never Mind, It’s The Shirt I Have On Here., due out this coming Friday, May 1st. With eight of the eleven tracks clocking in under a minute (and those other three not extending much past that), it’s a quick listen, one that feels like it was ripped out of the band, songs left half complete and cut for brevity’s sake at points without concern for resolution.
Like a whimsically sinister and debaucherous collection of rattled ideas, the record plays like a collage, with songs that are noisy and near incomprehensible (“Pears”) bleeding directly into most structured and partially more digestible songs (“Gumdrop”). Brock Ginther has an ability to write songs that transport you into the framework from the middle, without intro and conclusions, just the guts and the glory. There are remnants of hooks (“Hubert”) and hints at pop structures, but Divorce Cop are quick to shift whenever an idea has hit fruition, moving ahead from one sludgy lo-fi wall of noise into the next, pop nuggets (“Jeff”) hidden in every corner.