Los Angeles’ Drag Talk have released their new single, 'Would It Kill You', the second track to be unveiled from their debut album, Drink The Ocean, out 30th October via MNRK Heavy. Built on walls of guitars, soaring vocals and breakneck drums, the track the track is a huge, visceral introduction to a record that finds the band pushing their hook-driven sound into even more expansive territory.

Watch the video for 'Would It Kill You': https://youtu.be/pGu61qJBxw0

Stream the single here: https://dragtalk.ffm.to/woulditkillyou

Pre-save the album: https://dragtalk.ffm.to/drinktheocean

Following lead single ‘Pony Up’, ‘Would It Kill You’ offers another glimpse into Drink The Ocean, an album where ’90s indie rock nostalgia, shoegaze haze and Britpop melodicism collide with towering hooks, lush atmospherics and the genre-fluid vocals of Jutty Taylor.

“The occupational hazards of doing one’s True Will," Taylor says of the track.

Formed in Los Angeles, Drag Talk built a cult following with their 2024 EP Rosy Crown, followed by sold-out shows on both coasts. On Drink The Ocean, they expand that foundation into something bigger and more ambitious, bringing together the fuzz, romance and restless energy of ’90s alternative music with their own distinctly modern take on dream-pop.

Nothing else sounds quite like Drag Talk. Built around vocalist Jutty Taylor, guitarists Ross O’Carroll, Matt Ripp Bennett and Neil Popkin, and drummer Hayden Scott, the band brings together musicians with long and intertwined histories. Taylor and Scott previously played together in Grammy-winning Swedish rock band Ghost, while Popkin and Bennett were formerly bandmates in War Tapes. The chemistry between them is palpable, a creative brotherhood forged through years of friendship and musical experience, but given a distinctly new shape through Drag Talk.

The band began to take form during the pandemic, when home demos recorded by O’Carroll provided the germ for what would become Drag Talk. They released debut single ‘Egyptian Flesh’ in 2022, followed by the Dogs EP in 2023 and Rosy Crown in 2024. By the time the latter arrived, the band had cultivated a devoted following, translating their hazy, immersive sound into sell-out shows on both coasts and ultimately signing with MNRK Music Group.

Drink The Ocean is a lovingly layered creation that connects on multiple levels, its recurring themes of injustice and femininity flavoured with Taylor’s spiritual and esoteric interests. Even the album’s title is open to interpretation: a dismissive kiss-off; an ode to one-life-to-live experimentation and excess; or an allusion to the struggles that beset the album’s creation.

Produced by Tom Syrowski, the band’s sole producer to date, Drink The Ocean was recorded between his Los Angeles home studio and Hollywood’s legendary Henson Studios. Drawing on the shimmer of Swervedriver, The Verve and The Jesus and Mary Chain while folding in dream-pop, psych and classic rock, the album finds Drag Talk pushing familiar ’90s guitar language somewhere stranger, more emotionally charged and distinctly their own.

Guest appearances on Drink The Ocean include uber-producer Brendan O’Brien (RATM, AC/DC) playing Hammond organ on the album’s brooding title track, and Ghost’s Olivia Morreale singing backups on the stomping 'Welcome to the Aeon'.

Equally entrancing on late night home-alone headphones or at packed, immersive shows, Drag Talk has conjured a sonic and emotional niche just when none seemed left to discover. A rare creative brotherhood steeped in personal and musical chemistry, they’re a band for alt-rock fans who want to nudge the familiar forward, refract the comfortable and respectfully reframe tradition.

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Drag Talk release new single 'Would It Kill You'

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