Pissed Jeans – have shared their cover of Lou Reed’s ‘Waves Of Fear’

Pissed Jeans share a cover of Lou Reed’s “Waves Of Fear”, available worldwide on all DSPs from Sub Pop. The song was recorded during the sessions for their acclaimed Half Divorced, a 2025 Libera Award nominee for “Best Punk Album.” It was also available as a limited edition flexi disc, which was released in conjunction with their cover feature for the US punk zine New Noise Magazine last spring. 

Matt Korvette says of the song, “The seasick bass riff that centres ‘Waves Of Fear’ is one of my all-time favourites, so we had to take a stab at this paranoid, self-loathing classic. I yell ‘take it Crystal!’ at the end because Crystal Waters frequently records in the same studio we had recorded in, and we were hopeful she might ad-lib some soulful vocals at the end, the next time she stopped by. Sadly it did not pan out.”

The songs on Half Divorced skewer the tension between youthful optimism and the sobering realities of adulthood. Pissed Jeans’ – Matt Korvette (vocals), Bradley Fry (guitar),  Randy Huth (bass), and Sean McGuinness (drums) – notorious acerbic sense of humor remains sharper than ever as they dismember some of the joys that contemporary adult life has to offer. This is evidenced in album highlights like the Joe Stakun-directed official videos for “Cling to a Poisoned Dream,” and “Moving On” along with “Sixty-Two Thousand Dollars in Debt,” “Junktime,” and “Everywhere Is Bad.”

Half Divorced was produced and mixed by Pissed Jeans and recorded by Don Godwin with assistance from Mike Petillo at Tonal Park in Takoma Park, Maryland, and mastered by Arthur Rizk (co-producer and mixer for Why Love Now). 

Half Divorced is available now from Sub Pop.