cumgirl8 have announced their new album 8th cumming will drop on October 4th via 4AD. The record is the follow up to their self-titled EP (2020), experiencing their own end with their RIPcumgirl8 EP (2021), and witnessing a twisted vision of the afterlife through their first EP on 4AD phantasea pharm (2023). Today, The band have  have additionally shared the record’s first single, “Karma Police,” paired with an accompanying visualizer. With the track, the band deliver not a Radiohead cover, but a chaotic tour story of missed flights and stolen luggage delivered with a hailstorm of angular glittering keys, propulsive swirling riffs, and darkwave night club whispers akin to Gina X, Essential Logic, & Delta 5.

The band will be touring behind the album, with North American, European, and UK tour dates, kicking off this October and continuing through the end of the year with stops across the States, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, and more, as well as appearances at Iceland Airwaves and Desert Daze.

Described as a utopian, chaotic “Greta Thunberg fever dream,” the 8th cumming (recorded live, entirely on analog) is rooted in a philosophy close to the band’s heart: cyberfeminism, which addresses the relationship between human and machine, nature and technology. Within this context, the record aims to examine our relationships with the online and physical world from an apocalyptic vantage point, even down to its artwork in which the band adorns slime-covered futuristic garments in a muted, murky landscape (representative of an inevitable “post-reality” consisting of our deteriorating natural ecosystem and the dissolution of consciousness at the helm of artificial intelligence).

The album is full of musical references the band turned to during their writing sessions, including Miss Kittin, Delta 5, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Throbbing Gristle, ESG, Desire, Ladytron, Deli Girls, Nine Inch Nails, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Peaches, Björk, LustsickPuppy, Nite Fleit, White Town (specifically “Your Woman”).

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Tracklisting

01. Karma Police
02. ahhhh!hhhh! (i don’t wanna go)
03. mercy
04. hysteria!
05. UTI
06. simulation
07. girls don’t try
08. iBerry
09. ny winter
10. something new

Tour Dates

October 10 – Lake Perris, CA – Desert Daze Festival
October 15 – San Diego, CA – Casbah [Desert Daze Presents]
October 16 – Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room @ The Observatory [Desert Daze Presents]
October 18 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo [Desert Daze Presents]
October 19 – Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar [VIVA PHX Festival]
October 20 – Albuquerque, NM – Sister Bar
October 22 – Denver, CO – Hi Dive
October 24 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Beehive
October 25 – Boise, ID – Shrine Social Club Ballroom Basement [Duck Club Halloween Event]
October 26 – Portland, OR – Dante’s
October 27 – Seattle, WA – Madame Lou’s
October 28 – Vancouver, BC – The Pearl [Desert Daze Presents]
October 31 – Sacramento, CA – Goldfield Trading Post
November 1 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop [Psyched! Festival SF]
November 8 – Reykjavík, IS – Iceland Airwaves
November 10 – Lyon, FR – Le Sonic
November 15 – Bologna, IT – Covo Club
November 16 – Biel, CH – Terrain Gurzelen
November 17 – Basel, CH – Gannet – Gannet
November 18 – Frankfurt, DE – Zoom Bar
November 19 – Breda, NL – Pier 15 Skatepark
November 20 – Groningen, NL – Vera
November 21 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso (Small Hall)
November 23 – Copenhagen, DK – Huset
November 24 – Berlin, DE – Monach
November 26 – Cologne, DE – Helio37
November 27 – Hasselt, BE – Club AFF
November 28 – Paris, FR – Point Ephemere
November 30 – Brighton, UK – Revenge
December 1 – Bristol, UK – Exchange
December 2 – Southampton, UK – The Joiners
December 3 – Cardiff, UK – Clwb Ifor Bach
December 5 – London, UK – Underworld
December 6 – Sheffield, UK – Delicious Clam
December 7 – Glasgow, UK – Hug and Pint
December 9 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
December 10 – Manchester, UK – Yes Basement

Pre-order HERE