The Philly punk kids turned bad romance into one of the year’s best (and most intense) rock albums
’s Marisa Dabice has the kind of voice you can’t ignore—a punk yowl with a soul singer’s flair for raw passion. Her Philadelphia foursome raise a ferociously emotional racket on their new breakthrough album, one of the year’s most cathartic rock statements. “Drunk II” is Dabice’s witty ballad of partying her way through misery, with the punch line, “I forgot we were broken up/I still love you, you stupid fuck.” “I felt like it was almost a Lady Antebellum song after I wrote it,” she says.
From the start, Dabice turned to music for catharsis. “I had a very intense teenage experience—I was diagnosed with cancer when I was 15. Any free will I was supposed to have was suddenly taken away—nothing was in my control. I was going through experiences none of my peers could relate to. I used to be very goofy and strange and it really sobered me up. Growing up in the Connecticut suburbs, it’s an environment where there is a set way to live your life.
But Mannequin Pussy came together when she started playing with childhood friend Thanasi Paul. “He was in high-school bands—I’d go out to the teen center and see his band play. None of the girls played music—you know, we were the supporters.” She didn’t venture onstage until she was 23. “My mom had a stroke, so I moved back to the east coast to take care of her. All of a sudden I was at the hospital every day. So I just called him and said, ‘I feel really lost.
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