Say Yes to Love

Perfect Pussy's combustive, confrontational sound was so fully formed on their demo I Have Lost All Desire for Feeling that it seemed like their voice could only be diluted on a more widely released effort. However, they sound even more vital on their official debut, Say Yes to Love, offsetting any gains in fidelity with the sheer amount of noise packed into these songs. They use loudness as both a cloak and a dagger even more skillfully than before, alternately hiding behind and brandishing it on "Driver," where hissing static acts like a lit fuse before the song explodes. Despite being nearly drowned out by the rest of the band, Meredith Graves remains the heart of Perfect Pussy; it says as much about the state of music in the 2010s as it does about the band that there are so few acts with a frontwoman this charismatic and assertive. Graves' blunt yet poetic lyrics reveal the depth of Perfect Pussy's music. She sings about light as much as anger, and wrestles with sex and body positi