Cousin Betty - Envelope

  

  "Push Push..."

  Cousin Betty (https://www.facebook.com/cousinbettyband) are from Sydney and they're having an impressive 2022. In March they released a very good ep titled Taxes And Left (their first release with their new line up) and now they're back with a new single which gives us a taste of what will be on their upcoming album (due early next year). As well as this, vocalist Matt Downey has been busy with another cool band called Litter who have an album on the way very soon titled Vignettes Of Despondency​/​A Life Alimentaire and who featured on JSPS a couple of months ago and went down a storm https://justsomepunksongs.blogspot.com/2022/07/litter-hate-will-own-you.html 

  With regard to the band's name, they say "Cousin Betty is an outsider. Jilted, bitter and menacing. She's weird as fuck, and hard as nails. Hopefully our music embodies at least a couple of those great qualities." With regards to the new single, they promise "another riff-based, melodic rock monster. Grinding guitar, huge backing vocals, swirling keys and punching drums assemble to carry a message about the ugliness of entitlement." It's a promise they live up to.

  With a vocal style that brings to mind punk legend Jello Biafra, the song suggests social progress is just that. Nothing is guaranteed, nothing much changes overnight. Fresh agendas require time. Rosa Parks might have refused to give up her bus seat but this was just (a significant) part in the continuing  battle against racism rather than the end of the fight. It helped push the envelope. More of us need to push to achieve change.

  You can get the single here : https://cousinbetty.bandcamp.com/track/envelope 

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