Caught your attention with that song title, did we? Brooklyn noise rock quartet Foreign Body are known provocateurs and their new single, “When Sex Is Not Enough,” continues that approach. Hell, even the cover to their upcoming second album, Libertine, from which this new track originated, is fairly cheeky (sorry). But, seriously, these dudes—Hugh Potter (vocals/sax), Nikolai Kapetan (guitar), Collin Melazzo (drums), Thomas Koenig (bass)—have the noise rock rumble dialed in on “When Sex Is Not Enough.” The vocals are strained and distorted, with bass and drums pushing the track forward and atonal guitar creating nonstop tension. For three and a half minutes the track roils, throbs and abrades with abandon.
Libertine was recorded by Matt Russell and mixed and mastered at STR in San Diego by Matt Ibarra of Rectal Hygienics. It’s set for release on colored vinyl, cassette, CD and digitally via Brutal Panda on September 11. Place your preoder here (Brutal Panda webstore) and here (Bandcamp). And check out the tour dates (located below) following Libertine‘s release in September.
Vocalist Hugh Potter describes the new track:
“This is the second of two songs dedicated to obsessive sexual behavior of the male. Here the role of pornography and desensitization: a life drawn out only to consume and pleasure oneself. At the same time being destroyed by the inadequacies of fantasy and role play. Hence the Dworkin quote—this fantasy must be replicated in reality, and it is a violence that begets further violence. A timeline of scrubbed internet histories and deleted videos of dubious legality. You’re aware that it’s gotten out of control, but to stop you wouldn’t know where to begin and would you want to? Can you even come without the hideousness of your own perversions?”
Foreign Body live dates:
9/18/2026 McDuffs – Philadelphia, PA
9/19/2026 Preserving Shows – Pittsburgh, PA
9/20/2026 Horror Bar – Toledo, OH
9/21/2026 Sinkhole – St. Louis, MO
9/22/2026 Backline At Avondale Music Hall – Chicago, IL
9/23/2026 Black Circle – Indianapolis, IN
9/24/2026 Portal – Louisville, KY
9/25/2026 Dirty Dungarees – Columbus, OH
9/26/2026 Pie Shop – Washington, DC
9/29/2026 TV Eye – Queens, NY w/ Forn, Otay Ishii
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