Open Head, announce their first debut LP for Wharf Cat (Bambara, Drop Nineteens) entitled What Is Success, will drop on on January 24th, 2025. Along with the news, the band have shared “House”. The band are inspired by New York no-wave and the avant-garde history of punk, noise, hip-hop and electronic music The band have played shows Geese, Bodega, Wand, Cola, Water From Your Eyes and many more. Most recently, they played Basilica Soundscape.

Open Head on “House”:

“House” emerged from what turned out to be a pivotal jam session during the writing of the album. The band had a batch of songs, but many were feeling stuck in an angular, busy post-punk vocabulary they wished to escape. Creating tonal landscapes became more important than intricate melodies, and a lot of talk at the time was about the simple immediacy of electronic music and the punk-like attitude of experimental rap. Following these impulses, Jon abandoned his bass guitar for an Arturia Brute SE, focusing more on the manipulation of tone than a linear bass line, and Jared triggered samples of scrap metal on an SPD-SX running through his guitar effects pedals. These became the main melodic elements of the song. Brandon bowed a guitar prepared with several screwdriver bits, creating the haunting pads that swirl through one another. The lyrics imagine a machine made of flesh and metal limbs, trekking along in some sort of destructive tortured state: “I don’t wanna know what habit forms chains / I just wanna be done for awhile.”

Open Head
What Is Success
Tracklist
Wharf Cat

Success
Fiends Don’t Lose
Monotones
N.Y. Frills
*INOY
Take It From Me
House
Bullseye
Julo
Palace Quarters
Catacomb

Pre-order What Is Success HERE