Drug Couple left NYC on Friday, March 13th, 2020 for a wedding planning weekend in Vermont. Two weeks later they found themselves unemployed, in the middle of the woods, with a whole lot of time on their hands. In a two-hundred-year-old barn set amongst the rolling pastures of the grounds they now called home, they built a studio and named it “Freelandia”. It’s there that they laid down “Our December”, along with a peach of a single called “Lemon Trees”, and a full-length too, arriving on January 28, 2022, Drug Couple will release Stoned Weekend.

Drug Couple’s Stoned Weekend draws influence from The Lemonheads, Yo La Tengo, Uncle Tupelo, Dinosaur Jr, and Neil Young. Featuring the couple themselves, Miles on vocals, guitar, bass, harmonica, and keys; Becca on vocals, bass, guitar, and harmonica; it’s a release that also finds room to introduce Pastor Greg Faison, who plays drums throughout. Elsewhere, Danny Meyer and Travis Rosenberg each play on two tracks: Danny on saxophone and piano, and Travis on pedal steel.

Produced in the capable hands of Miles Robinson himself, the LP showcases the understated talents of the band as much as it showcases their (perhaps commercially misguided) desire to make the kind of independent music they want to make. A world away from the bedroom-produced Billie Eilish-inspired sad-girl “pop but not” entries of today; it’s a collection of barn-produced blasts from a couple who get a kick out of alternative music, almost as much as they do each other’s company.

Drug Couple
Stoned Weekend
Track List

Stoned Weekend
Missed Our Chance
Lemon Trees
Linda’s Tripp
Little Do I Know
Ben & Bongo
Blue Water
Our December
Wyld Chyld
Still Stoned

Order Stones Weekend by Drug Couple HERE