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Freak Scene are beyond excited to be bringing US indie punks Mannequin Pussy to Oxford for the first time ever!

The band are touring their brilliant third album Patience, which just came out on Epitaph, and which Pitchfork gave an 8.4, calling it 'one of the best punk rock records of the year'.

Here's what the label say about it:

Philadelphia, PA indie punk band Mannequin Pussy's new album Patience, is out now on Epitaph. This is the follow-up to their 2016 release Romantic and the band's Epitaph debut.

The third full-length from Mannequin Pussy, Patience is an album fascinated with the physical experience of the body, its songs tracking the movements of mouths and hands and racing hearts, skin and spit and teeth and blood. Deeply attuned to the power of their own physicality, members Colins Rey Regisford (bass, samples, vocals), Kaleen Reading (drums, percussion), Marisa Dabice (guitar, vocals), and Athanasios Paul (guitar, keys) channel complex emotion in blistering riffs, thrashing rhythms, vocals that feel as immediate and untamed as a gut reaction. But throughout Patience, the band contrasts that raw vitality with intricate melodies and finely detailed arrangements, building a strange and potent tension that makes the album all the more cathartic. Patience matches Mannequin Pussy's wild volatility with a narrative voice that's often painfully vulnerable.

Patience came to life at Studio 4 in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. In creating the album, Mannequin Pussy worked with producer/engineer Will Yip (Quicksand, The Menzingers), shaping an explosive sound that never overshadows the subtlety of their songwriting. In the past there's been a chaotic feeling to the recording process, but working with Will put us in a different headspace, says Dabice. It helped us show our progression over the past few years and make a very crisp-sounding record, without losing the dirtiness of what Mannequin Pussy really is."

Supports are TBC, but the show is guaranteed to be a belter.

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56 Walton Street,

Oxford,

Oxfordshire,

England,

OX2 6AZ.