Potty Mouth (band)

Potty Mouth
Origin Northampton, Massachusetts
Genres Riot grrrl, punk rock, noise pop
Years active 2011 (2011)–present
Labels Old Flame Records, Marshall Teller Records
Website www.pottymouthworld.com
Members
  • Ally Einbinder
  • Victoria Mandanas
  • Abby Weems
Past members
  • Ali Donohue
  • Phoebe Harris

Potty Mouth is a Western Massachusetts all-female punk rock band that formed in 2011 at Smith College. The band's original lineup was Ally Einbinder (bass guitar), Phoebe Harris (guitar), Abby Weems (guitar, lead vocals), and Victoria Mandanas (drums). Following Harris's departure, Potty Mouth has continued as a three-piece, with occasional guest guitarists at live performances.

History

Potty Mouth was formed by Ally Einbinder and Phoebe Harris, two Smith College students, in 2011. Einbinder played bass while Harris learned to play the guitar. Another Smith College student, Victoria Mandanas, joined the band to play drums, having played in a punk rock band in high school; Abby Weems, a high school student at the time, also joined to play guitar and sing lead vocals. Like Harris, Weems did not know how to play guitar before joining Potty Mouth. In September 2011, the band recorded four demo tracks.[1] According to Einbinder, Harris thought of the band's name while on the toilet, unaware of the Bratmobile album of the same name.[2]

In 2013, Potty Mouth released their first full-length album, Hell Bent, to positive reviews from critics.[1][3] In 2015, they released a self-titled EP, which was recorded without Harris, who had departed from the band. The band's tour to promote the EP featured various guest rhythm guitarists. During this time, they made a distribution deal with Alternative Distribution Alliance and gained attention from Atlantic Records.[4] The band continued to tour in 2016, supporting Beach Slang's spring tour. For their 2016 shows, Potty Mouth was joined by guitarist Aurore Ounjian of Mean Creek.[5] In July, the band, along with Ounjian, played at Lollapalooza, their first music festival.[6] On June 28, 2018, the band opened for The Go-Gos at the Fox Theatre in Oakland, California.

Style

Einbinder and Weems have expressed disapproval of the labeling of the band as riot grrrl. Einbinder stated that "Slapping the riot grrrl label on us just because we happen to be women playing a type of music that happens to be reminiscent of another era in time seems like a lazy conflation."[1] Weems speculated that the association may have been due to the low fidelity of their early recordings.[7]

In a Pitchfork review of Hell Bent, Jenn Pelly described Weems's vocals as a "Liz Phair-style monotone", delivering "deceptively simple lyrics".[3] Writing for the Toronto Star, Ben Rayner wrote that Weems "sounds like she's perpetually rolling her eyes at everything and everyone in scorn".[8] Pelly also compares the band's sound to pop-punk and post-punk with vestiges of surf music.[1][3]

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Pelly, Liz (June 18, 2013). "Band To Watch: Potty Mouth". Stereogum. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ Einbinder, Ally (February 28, 2013). "Potty Mouth: 'It Is Not Our Job to Teach the Rest of the World How to Not Be Assholes'" (Interview). Interviewed by Elliot Sharp. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 Pelly, Jenn (September 25, 2013). "Potty Mouth: Hell Bent". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  4. ↑ Ruiz, Matthew Ismael (October 20, 2015). "The New, The Hyped, The Totally Random: Every Band We Saw at CMJ 2015". Flavorwire. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  5. ↑ Marotta, Michael (April 6, 2016). "Former Mean Creek guitarist Aurore Ounjian to join Potty Mouth on Beach Slang tour". Vanyaland. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
  6. ↑ Kot, Greg (July 31, 2016). "Lolla's 4-day marathon: At 25, a festival defined, for better or worse, by the youth brigade". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
  7. ↑ Einbinder, Ally; Weems, Abby (November 30, 2015). "premiere: potty mouth's 'creeper weed' video is a vhs teen dream" (Interview). Interviewed by Emily Manning. i-D. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
  8. ↑ Rayner, Ben (November 1, 2015). "The dream of the '90s is alive in Potty Mouth". Toronto Star. Retrieved February 24, 2016.
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