Belfast punk trio Mob Wife announce debut album Eat With Your Eyes

Off the back of a sold-out hometown headline show, Belfast DIY punk trio Mob Wife have announced the release of debut album Eat With Your Eyes, slated to land on Friday 29th April.

Along with the announcement comes new single ‘Cutting Teeth On Suburban Curbs’, out March 18th, which sees the band at full panorama. The track veers from sludgy, slack, Pixies and Pavement-esque wandering indie rock to the band’s signature kinetic propulsion, á la Fugazi.

‘Cutting Teeth on Suburban Curbs’ captures Leckey’s “dizzying realisation of the amount of time wasted in life, and the anxiety and depression that comes alongside it.”

Written during the prospect of the return to working class life as a barista dealing with Belfast’s more upwardly mobile caffeine-lovers, ‘Suburban Curbs’ bends and winds as the lyrics begin to open to the fact that “no matter what you do, you’re still just you.”

An overarching meditation on panic and of moral compass in the face of impending doom, Eat With Your Eyes was written over the course of lockdown, and is, aptly enough, equal parts pummelling and panoramic, and as claustrophobic as it is expansive. It was recorded and mixed by the band’s bassist, increasingly renowned producer/engineer Carl Small, with artwork by Georgia Collins, aka Peach.

Mob Wife's outward-looking approach has been expanded upon since 2018 debut single ‘Warm Water’. Their knack for exploring melody within chaos shares inspiration from the likes of Metz, Jawbox, Pile and Unwound as they traverse the serrated edges of modern life, cranking tension between hope and nihilism.

Mob Wife consistently eschew conventional boundaries with their exploratory and experimental take on punk and indie rock. The trio have released a string of singles, put out a split cassette with Limerick’s Cruiser, featured on acclaimed compilations A Litany of Failures Vol. 3, Bangers n’ Mash-Ups.

They've been tipped by Hot Press, and have toured across Ireland a number of times - playing the likes of Stendhal Festival and a sell-out show in Belfast.

Listen to the band's 2021 single 'Brand New House' below: