{"id":2426108,"date":"2026-05-21T09:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2426108"},"modified":"2026-05-21T09:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T09:12:37","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-vagina-dry-brutalised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/song-you-need-to-know-vagina-dry-brutalised\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Vagina Dry, &#8216;Brutalised&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>This feature is part of a new Scene Report on <\/em><i>Dunedin. Check out the series <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/t\/scene-report\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>When <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/vagina-dry-dunedin-band-interview-89224\/\" target=\"_blank\">we caught up<\/a> with young \u014ctepoti Dunedin band Vagina Dry last year, they had high hopes for 2026.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTo perform in the UK, but realistically it should be to actually release our album and do some physical releases too,\u201d lead vocalist El told us. \u201cWrite new music and keep having fun while uplifting voices that need to be heard.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As was revealed today, they\u2019ve already achieved one of those goals.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Sivle Talk, Sogg, and U-NO JUNO, three other excellent bands from our Dunedin Scene Report series, Vagina Dry will drop <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/4eps-dun-records-release-sivle-talk-sogg-u-no-juno-vagina-dry-95435\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>4EPS<\/em><\/a> in July, a special release which follows the example of Flying Nun\u2019s legendary <em>Dunedin Double<\/em> EP (1982).<\/p>\n<p>Just like that legendary release, <em>4EPS<\/em> is essentially four individual releases packaged together, with each band given one side each. There\u2019s Sivle Talk\u2019s <em>CRYBABY<\/em>, <em>Freezer Thaw<\/em> by Sogg, U-NO JUNO\u2019s <em>you know<\/em>, and a self-titled EP by Vagina Dry.<\/p>\n<p>The first taste of <em>4EPS<\/em> is the brutal, searing \u201cBrutalised\u201d, Vagina Dry\u2019s latest slice of explosive Riot grrrl energy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The young trio \u2014 El is joined by bassist Reef and drummer Caleb in the lineup \u2014 produced the single with help from Tane Cotton, aka <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/sivle-talk-barely-standing-live-at-pioneer-hall-album-you-need-to-know-89231\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sivle Talk<\/a>, at the latter\u2019s WarPossum Studios (Hamish Waddell handled mixing duties).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\"><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 442px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/track=49248398\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vaginadry.bandcamp.com\/track\/brutalised\" target=\"_blank\">Brutalised by Vagina Dry<\/a><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>Typical of a Vagina Dry release (see also <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vaginadry.bandcamp.com\/track\/liar\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cLIAR\u201d<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vaginadry.bandcamp.com\/track\/white-feminism\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWHITE FEMINISM\u201d<\/a>), the lyrics do not miss.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOur bodies seen as property \/ Our sexuality, a prize to be won,\u201d<\/em> El bellows at the very beginning of the unrelenting song. The end hits just as hard: <em>\u201cYou don\u2019t even see us as people \/ We are your greatest commodity \/ Forced to give birth to your work force \/ Our vaginas are your factories.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrutalised\u201d is the sort of in-yer-face, to-the-point song that any of the best Riot grrrl bands of the genre\u2019s \u201990s heyday would have been proud to call their own.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s thanks to bruising songs like \u201cBrutalised\u201d that Vagina Dry have already played to Australian audiences, after they took to the stage at LOUD WOMEN Festival last year,\u00a0playing alongside other \u201cfemale, non-binary and trans badasses\u201d from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the South Island that\u2019s next in their sights, though, as Vagina Dry and their collaborators will celebrate <em>4EPS<\/em> at shows in Dunedin (of course), Geraldine, and Christchurch between July and August. Better luck next time, North Island.<\/p>\n<p><em>Vagina Dry\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/vaginadry.bandcamp.com\/track\/brutalised\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cBrutalised\u201d<\/a> is out now. 4EPS is out July 3rd via DUN Records (pre-order <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/relicsmusic.co.nz\/products\/4epsvarious-artists-2lp-new-preorder?_pos=1&amp;_sid=60c47e016&amp;_ss=r&amp;_su_rec=nR6ouvI8abAv7TlTlcB1ADH8_UwhM1sj5RNZyvQyRTBGVYGf8W8WfsQS7sVisvy3VTbjs5ttvPX6NsIvl3UK-qGXp01fo6KXUm6N6PsfYeZSY8OGxY5aP6AZfWOo9ScfUcbsD-Vai2Ug6czaYSwLcqMzpeYtNwVT6a52TykUNd_yZscZcUX34B1kQhTU6Nfd7ImtwcSJbzhkTu-IX-Zxdo2_9_Q8daJfDBYfJ7RLP6bySq-6EFuinGxSGwrvFy1FIGpICQGdhHl_1i8k_g3qOjqZqAMcmAYJwoZhVhKFyqigecZ0dur3HX2Rh9y6a9u9V0tlYT7gNpx785aEwI5n_MoGd4dicfgYsyz5G60RiybsBmslnAryMNI&amp;_su_rec_id=52bfc878-1183-4839-96e1-c1acb3598988-1779347129\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','243859349395737');fbq('track','PageView');fbq.disablePushState=true;<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This feature is part of a new Scene Report on Dunedin. Check out the series here.\u00a0 When we caught up with young \u014ctepoti Dunedin band Vagina Dry last year, they had high hopes for 2026. \u201cTo perform in the UK, but realistically it should be to actually release our album and do some physical releases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2426109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[475621,475622,475623,439445,352673,259337,475624,475625],"class_list":["post-2426108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-4eps","tag-brutalised","tag-dun-records","tag-dunedin","tag-scene-report","tag-song-you-need-to-know","tag-vagina-dry","tag-vagina-dry-brutalised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Song-You-Need-to-Know-Vagina-Dry-Brutalised.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426110,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426108\/revisions\/2426110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2426109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}