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The queer, feminist punk band Team Dresch started in Portland in 1993, and they inspired a whole lot of people before breaking up in 1998. They didn’t stay broken up for long. Team Dresch played their first reunion show in 2004, and they’ve been touring sporadically since then. Back in 2019, they shared “Your Hands In My Pockets<\/a>,” their first song in many years, and they covered<\/a> Elliott Smith’s “St. Ides Heaven” a couple of years later. Now, they’re getting ready to release Furthermore<\/em>, their first album since their 1996 sophomore LP Captain My Captain<\/em>. <\/p>\n The current version of Team Dresch is a five-piece that includes both of the band’s ’90s drummers, Marc\u00e9o Martinez and Melissa York. Singer\/guitarist Kaia Wilson explains the band’s decision to record a new album in comic form, so here it is:<\/p>\n Opening track “One Song” is a purposeful, welcoming anthem about why Team Dresch do what they do: “Some people say you only write one song, and that feels true\/ And I do it for you\/ The lonely young one that was me\/ Who\u2019s in me, and who may be in you.” Nina Landey directed the song’s video, and it stars singer\/bassist Jody Bleyle\u2019s daughter Twylo Landey. Here’s what the band says about it:<\/p>\n There are lots of layers to this song. It\u2019s a love song to our young selves from our present selves. It\u2019s a song of hope and power for all the young queers who are dragged into the struggle. It\u2019s also a song for the elders who have built defenses from years of working and caretaking and being pounded by life.<\/p>\n The chorus starts,\u00a0“They say there\u2019s danger In the Night Kitchen\/ But it\u2019s a dreamland\/ And it\u2019s all for us.” In the Night Kitchen<\/em>\u00a0is a banned book written by our queer ancestor, Maurice Sendak, who creates magical dreamlands. And then as we wrote about what it\u2019s like to be older, Mel [York, drummer] remembered a message from an elder queer going through the same things as us and that message inspired the second verse.<\/p>\n Young people are not only told that they\u2019re IN a nightmare, they\u2019re told that they ARE the nightmare. But actually, our queerness is a dreamland full of feral, playful joy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Below, check out the “One Song” video, the Furthermore<\/em> tracklist, and Team Dresch’s tour dates.<\/p>\n\n