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Pleasure, shame, and survival often arrive tangled together, indistinguishable in the moment. Camgirl, from Crippling Alcoholism, takes that entanglement as it's starting point. Rather than separating desire from damage, the record allows them to coexist, tracing a path through obsession, performance, and persistence without offering clean resolution.Camgirl is the 2025 breakthrough album from Boston's Crippling Alcoholism, a record that frames pop immediacy against obsession, endurance, and collapse. Built from ear-wormy hooks and abrasive noise rock textures, the album smuggles grotesque and confrontational subject matter into songs that remain deliberately melodic. Pleasure and revulsion blend throughout, with choruses that linger even as the lyrics refuse comfort.Released on September 12, 2025, Camgirl follows a loose narrative centered on a sex worker moving through cycles of exploitation and survival, treating intimacy as spectacle and visibility as threat. Songs flicker between desire and despair, confession and performance, flooded with artificial light. Despite it's subject matter, the record resists nihilism. It's closing moments arrive quietly triumphant, not through escape or redemption, but through persistence itself.Originally released on vinyl by Portrayal of Guilt Records, the first pressing of Camgirl sold out quickly. The Flenser reissue makes the album widely available for the first time, reaffirming it as a defining statement from a band operating at the intersection of pop form, noise, and lived experience.
Tracklist:
- Mr. Sentimental
- Saran Wrapped Cash
- LADIES' NIGHT (feat. Luxury Skin)
- Pay Pigs
- bedrot
- MONET
- Pretty in Pink (feat. Luxury Skin)
- Pliers (feat. Luxury Skin)
- screentime
- I Have a Key to Your House
- CAMGIRL
- Sweet Talk (feat. Ameokama)
- TARAVISTA (feat. Luxury Skin)
- Mary Kate ; Ashley
- despair (feat. Latter)
UPC: 769152434650
Label: Flenser
Release Date: 4.3.26
Format: Vinyl Record
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