New Jersey-based post punk trio Love Letter! — founding members Bruce Macchione (guitar) and Marc Norton (drums) along with Emily Terzano (vocals, bass) — can trace their origins back to 2021: The band’s founding members Macchione and Norton met through a mutual friend, who worked at a local Dairy Queen. The group played for about a year and were on hiatus when they met Terzano last winter — and as a result of that meeting, the band rebranded itself both through its name and through its sound, moving form a pop/indie rock-leaning sound to a goth-inspired take on post punk.
The New Jersey-based trio’s debut EP, the four-song Mother Superior introduces listeners to their new sound, a sound that features elements of jazz, grunge, goth, shoegaze and metal. Thematically, the EP’s material aims to bring awareness to issues like climate change, LGBQT+ rights, abuse and mental health while encapsulating the feelings of isolation, anger and fear that often come with uncertain and uneasy times.
“Mother Superior is about feeling every emotion that finds its way to the soles of your feet and back up through your spine again,” the band’s Emily Tarzano explains. “It is a work of strength, persistence, and the acceptance of change not just lyrically, but instrumentally as well.”
Mother Superior‘s latest single “Inferno” is a bruising track that sounds like a synthesis of Hole, Veruca Salt and Ganser: angular power chords are fed through copious amount of fuzz and distortion and pared with thunderous drumming and a sing-songy, and ironically detached vocals. At its core, “Inferno” is an incisive bit of satire that pokes fun at celebrities who are too materialistic to even care about climate change — or its impact on themselves and others.
this one reminds me a bit of a cross between hole and chicago post punks ganser. i dig this and would love to write about it. but can you please send me a press release. it should have a band bio and a quote on the song’s themes — or its creation. thanks!
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