Public Opinion have announced their debut album, Painted On Smile will drop on September 6th from Convulse Records (Gel). Co-produced by Militarie Gun/Regional Justice Center leader Ian Shelton along with engineer Taylor Young (Twitching Tongues/God’s Hate member).

Public Opinion–Hart, drummer Devan Bentley, guitarists Kevin Johnson and Brent Liseth, and bassist Sebastian Stanley–emerged from the Denver, Colorado, hardcore scene in 2020

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Have you ever felt like you might be cursed? Public Opinion frontman Kevin Hart can’t help but wonder. “We jokingly called it the ‘Curse of Kevin,’ but I guess sometimes it’s hard to not feel like I have bad luck that I can’t really get away from,” he explains. “For instance, we were supposed to play a festival a few years ago but had to drop it because I got Covid…at my mom’s funeral. That’s kind of quintessential ‘Curse of Kevin’ stuff–feeling like whenever something bad is happening, it’s actually about to get even worse.” Hart’s semi-tongue-in-cheek theory is at the center of Public Opinion’s debut full-length, Painted On Smile. One part ultra-catchy punk, one part exorcism, it’s an album that reckons with self-loathing and self-doubt so thoroughly that by the end of it, maybe things don’t seem as cursed after all.

Public Opinion
Painted On Smile
track list
Convulse Records

1. Drawn From Memory
2. Hothead
3. Some Don’t
4. Stethoscope
5. Passes Me By
6. Chicanery
7. No Fruit At All
8. Dry Clean Only
9. Scene Missing
10. Wear & Tear

Public Opinion 2024 North American Tour Dates

08/16 Denver, CO @ D3 Arts *
08/17 Colorado Springs, CO *
09/12 Omaha, NE @ Break Room
09/13 Springfield, IL @ Dumb Records
09/14 Bloomington, IN @ Roses
09/15 Grand Rapids, MI @ TBA
09/16 Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club
09/17 Minneapolis, MN @ Flying V Music Hall

* w/ Praise

Pre order Painted on Smile HERE