Perfect Pussy + Broken Prayer + Split Feet

With a provocative name, impatient rage and '90s zine aesthetics, Meredith Graves fronts Perfect Pussy, next in the line of great frontwomen that gave us Kathleen Hanna, Karen O, Marissa Paternoster and Jehnny Beth. The Syracuse band's ripping cassette-tape debut, I Have Lost All Desire for Feeling, is a dozen-plus minutes of perfect, passionate hardcore, a bit of Bikini Kill meets Iceage, with songs only branded with Roman numerals. "My best friend is back in town...her eyes fell low with shame and cum," Graves howls to open I, before repeating in the end, "I am full of light, I am full of light, I am full of light!" If you ever loved punk, this will remind you why. The band has signed to the très hip Captured Tracks, who will release Say Yes to Love in March. The first single, "Driver," offers a touch more clarity.