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Stud Count - Telepathic Love

Philadelphia’s Stud Count come on like tuff punks, but at heart, the band may yearn to craft tuneful pop songs. On this self-titled debut LP, you can hear Stud Count working through some of the themes and gestures that have informed successful pop-punk acts like Pup or fellow Philadelphians Modern Baseball: big songs about bigger feelings, with intimations of teenage unhappiness (even trauma) at metaphorical arm’s length; flailing or failed attempts at romance are narrated with more immediate dramatics. All of those bummer sentiments get articulated alongside major chords and melodic structures with plenty of hooks and slick guitar lines. And Stud Count holds a couple of ace cards in Norelle Green’s pipes and presence. She’s a born frontwoman (person?), and she’s figuring out how to move through her intonations and vocal affects with increasing assurance. “Through my Window” is among the most emphatic examples of those dulcet ambitions. She’s breathy-confessional, bouncy-urgent, icy-indifferent, sometimes all in the same verse — she’s not Debbie Harry yet, but she’s working on it.

Stud Count release fierce melodic punk single ‘Talkin’ 2 You’

Today Philly based melodic post-punk rockers Stud Count reveal a show-stopping first listen of their upcoming debut self-titled LP with their single ‘Talkin’ 2 You.’ This track marks the beginning of Stud Count’s new era of music as they announce their signing with Smartpunk Records for the release of their upcoming album in 2022.

The track is a brazen, high energy love song about finding “the one”: “This song is about finding that person - your forever person. All the waiting, tears, and doubt solved in the context of permanence,” explains vocalist Norelle.

Counting such influences as Wipers, Garbage, and Husker Dü, Stud Count is a new Philadelphia-based band featuring familiar faces. The fresh endeavor is composed of current/former members of Drill Sergeant, The Dividing Line, Academy Order, Fluoride, Leashes, and Fixation. Combining an abrasive post-punk edge with a melodic undercurrent beneath it all, Stud Count features drummer Bret Hart, vocalist Norelle Green, Max D’ambra and Matthew Green on guitars.