Suicide Squeeze have announced plans to re-release The Coathangers’ raw and rowdy long out-of-print 2007 self-titled debut album. This latest, remastered version of the album will be released on December 4 and includes the bonus tracks, ‘Wife Eyes’ from the 2010 ‘Hard Candy EP’ and the title track from 2007’s ‘Never Wanted You EP’. ‘The Coathangers’ will be available on vinyl featuring expanded artwork with an initial pressing of 1000 copies (500 on Confetti Crush Splatter Vinyl, 500 on Neon Strawberry Banana Pinwheel Vinyl). The album will also be available on digital formats.

Along with the announcement, they have shared the remastered version of ‘Wife Eyes’. "We have always encouraged each-other to explore other instruments. For us, switching instruments was a way to explore our creativity and expand our sonic landscape” comments Julia Kugel. “I think some of our most creative songs came out of the practice of switching instruments and 'Wife Eyes' is one of our earliest recorded songs where we switched instruments: Candice plays drums and Steph the keys. The title is an obvious play on words-inspired by a joke on 30 Rock that lent itself well to speaking on the roles of technology and patriarchy in our culture. It’s amazing to see that we are still dealing with these issues today."

The eponymous debut album by The Coathangers is a whirlwind ride of a band at the most frenzied, celebratory, and free moment of their existence. As a standalone record, it’s a brash and bawdy rocker sure to please anyone who likes their rock n’ roll sweaty and messy. As a piece in the band’s legacy, it’s an exhilarating reminder of the band’s youthful carefree beginnings.

'The Coathangers' track list:

1. Why This Record Intro

2. Tonya Harding

3. Wreckless Boy

4. Haterade

5. A Real Honey

6. Shut The Fuck Up

7. Parking Lot

8. Buckhead Betty

9. Don’t Touch My Shit!

10. Roll Dem Dice

11. Parcheezi

12. Fatty Pad

13. Nestle In My Boobies

14. Bloody Shirt

15. The Missing Letter

16. Wife Eyes (bonus track)

17. Never Wanted You (bonus track)

18. Larger Success Outro

Next week The Coathangers kick off their European tour in support of new album, The Devil You Know, which was released earlier this year on Suicide Squeeze. To celebrate, the band have shared a new video for one of the album's stand-out tracks, ‘Stranger Danger’.

Vocalist and drummer Stephanie Luke says, “‘Stranger Danger’ is a song about avoiding the negative people in one’s life, like when your mother used to tell you “stranger danger!” so you wouldn’t go off with the bad guys. The video is dark with flashes of light (actual flashlights) to invoke that feeling of the unknown. Then we have our ever so good sport of a friend and album artwork artist/frequent collaborator Scott Montoya, whom we’ve kidnapped and continue to “terrorize” throughout the video, so we in fact have become the dangerous strangers. This was one of our favourites to make with our amazingly talented videographer Matt Odom, enjoy!”

From calling out US gun legislation on ‘F The NRA’ to addressing addiction on ‘Step Back’, The Devil You Know leaves no room to doubt that, ten years in, they're still one of the most vital and truth-seeking punk bands around. The album title stems from an old adage whispered at a friend’s wedding; we settle when we’re afraid of the unknown. It’s a theme that runs through every song on the album, and even though the band insists they were writing songs about other peoples’ pain, they acknowledge that the old saying applies to their band as well. We get comfortable, we get scared, and we refuse to change. But with The Devil You Know, The Coathangers lost their fear, and that allowed them to shed the baggage of the past. “Why are we living in these cells we built for ourselves?” Kugel asks. “That’s been the great thing about this record. It’s been honest and confrontational… but not in a shitty way.”

The Coathangers European live dates:

April 24 - Brighton, England @ The Latest Music Bar

April 25 - London, England @ Studio 9294

April 27 - Leicester, England @ The Cookie

April 28 - Glasgow, Scotland @ SWG Poetry Club

April 29 - Manchester, England @ Soup Kitchen

April 30 - Liverpool, England @ Arts Club (Loft)

May 01 - Leeds, England @ The Key Club