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Libertine, the second LP from Brooklyn-based noise rock/punk outsiders FOREIGN BODY, is now streaming at IDIOTEQ, paired with a full track-by-track rundown of the record. The stream precedes the album’s official release tomorrow on Brutal Panda Records.
FOREIGN BODY plays raw, hideous, and vulgar music emblematic of the seedy underbelly of yesterday’s New York City, where sex workers walked the streets freely, rubble and decay were prevalent, drugs were readily available, and every businessman’s briefcase contained a loaded gun. The quartet spins Musou black yarns that polite society would rather have swept under the rug, soundtracking them with jaw-clenching and furious mid-tempo punk exploding with fresh ideas. And even though FOREIGN BODY drips with a loathsome mix of hatred for modern living and a desire for its immolation, they’re also one of music’s most promising faces.
Libertine is a wholly relentless album with unflinching portrayals of vice, perversions, and glorified excesses. The album was recorded by Matt Russell (REZN, Oozing Wound, Big Laugh), mixed and mastered at STR in San Diego by Matt Ibarra of Rectal Hygienics and completed with artwork by vocalist Hugh Potter. This is a must-hear record for fans of Brainbombs, Couch Slut, Rectal Hygienics, Unsane, Chat Pile, The Birthday Party, Flipper, Big Black, and labelmates Intercourse.
Alongside the stream, the band states, “Libertine is a celebration of man’s perverse insides and the unending pursuit of vice. We invite you to join us in vicious laughter: with mouthfuls of piss and expensive champagne, we take a razor to the image of art and good taste.”
IDIOTEQ writes within their deep dive on the album, “FOREIGN BODY spend much of Libertine inside predatory voices. Across ten songs, the Brooklyn noise rock/punk quartet move through a miserable hangover, a dead family member’s fatal coke run in the Bridgeport projects, prison rape, bondage, voyeurism, pornography, paid sex, trafficking and an artist who treats cruelty as his work. The point of view keeps changing. Sometimes the speaker is wrecked and abusive. Elsewhere he is watching through a screen door, buying access to another body, imposing punishment or trying to turn appetite into a philosophy.”
Let FOREIGN BODY’s Libertine slam your ears while you scope the track-by-track rundown of the album at IDIOTEQ HERE.
Libertine will be released on colored vinyl LP, CS, CD, and digital formats this Friday, September 11th. Find preorders at the Brutal Panda webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE, and digital presaves HERE. Watch videos for “Trophy” HERE and “Libertines” HERE.
FOREIGN BODY is also holding a special release day listening party for the album tomorrow night at Very Friendly NYC in Brooklyn. More info is available HERE.
Next week, FOREIGN BODY will launch their tour across the Eastern and Midwest states from September 18th through 26th, followed by a hometown show in Queens on September 29th. Expect additional live updates to post shortly.
FOREIGN BODY Tour 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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