Pissed Jeans share cover of Lou Reed's "Waves of Fear"
Today, Pissed Jeans share a cover of Lou Reed's Waves Of Fear, available worldwide on all DSPs from Sub Pop. The song was recorded during the sessions for their acclaimed “Half Divorced”, a 2025Libera Award nominee for “Best Punk Album.” It was also available as a limited edition flexi disc, which was released in conjunction with their cover feature for the US punk zine New Noise Magazine last spring.
Matt Korvette says of the song, “The seasick bass riff that centres 'Waves Of Fear' is one of my all-time favourites, so we had to take a stab at this paranoid, self-loathing classic. I yell 'take it Crystal!' at the end because Crystal Waters frequently records in the same studio we had recorded in, and we were hopeful she might ad-lib some soulful vocals at the end, the next time she stopped by. Sadly it did not pan out."
Pissed Jeans have a series of shows coming for the spring and summer of 2025 in continued support of “Half Divorced”, including an appearance at the Green Man Festival in Wales on 15th August.
You can listen to Waves of Fear on YouTube below:
The songs on “Half Divorced” skewer the tension between youthful optimism and the sobering realities of adulthood. Pissed Jeans’ – Matt Korvette (vocals), Bradley Fry (guitar), Randy Huth (bass), and Sean McGuinness (drums) – notorious acerbic sense of humor remains sharper than ever as they dismember some of the joys that contemporary adult life has to offer. This is evidenced in album highlights like the Joe Stakun-directed official videos for Clin to a Poisoned Dream and Moving On along with Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt, Junktime, and Everywhere Is Bad.
“Half Divorced” was produced and mixed by Pissed Jeans and recorded by Don Godwin with assistance from Mike Petillo at Tonal Park in Takoma Park, Maryland, and mastered by Arthur Rizk (co-producer and mixer for Why Love Now).
“Half Divorced” saw praise from the likes of MOJO, Uncut, Stereogum (“Album of the Week”), Brooklyn Vegan, Pitchfork, Treble Zine, The Quietus, Kerrang, and more. It also led to an appearance on The Best Show with Tom Sharpling where the band performed “Half Divorced” songs Cling…, Stolen Catalytic Converter, Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt, Monsters, and Moving On.
“Half Divorced” is available now to buy from Sub Pop HERE.
