Hand Habits - Sugar The BruiseHand Habits, the project of Los Angeles based musician Meg Duffy (they them), announces a new collection of songs titled Sugar The Bruise, out June 16th via Fat Possum. Inspired by month long songwriting class Duffy taught in the summer of 2021, they re discovered, with newfound clarity, the generative capacity of embracing the unknown, and how essential collaboration and improvisation are for accessing the indescribable. Working with Luke Temple

Every song on it is great

” and “Been Caught Stealing”

Celebrating its 30th Anniversary this year

the ‘voices’

Arthur Russell and Godspeed You

Deeply rooted in the Brechtian ideas of art as a tool to spur action

and deeply held principles they consider fundamental to health as likely to be interpreted as just another form of stealth

" Also featured: a cover of Nina Simone's "In The Morning" and a rearrangement of the traditional "Silver Dagger

” says Blamire of the song’s inspiration

Love & loss balance together in suspended alchemy

Evolving from London Mod act The Action

This is made manifest on ‘Viscerals’