Sleep It Off - A Tribute To The Brazen Hussies

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Clear yellow vinyl. To mark the 20th Anniversary of Jezus Factory Records, we invited friends and collaborators to revisit the gloriously chaotic world of Brazen Hussies - the late-90s cult band who somehow managed to hold NME Single of the Week and Melody Maker's Wankers of the Week simultaneously, all while charming Type O Negative's Pete Steele during a Kerrang! guest review. They never capitalised on any of it, leaving behind a trail of brilliant songs, chemical misadventures and frayed mental health. Our 2021 Anthology sparked a new wave of critical acclaim; this tribute shows exactly why. The idea for a covers album began during lockdown, when I (Andrew Bennett, Jezus Factory) started imagining how these songs might sound in the hands of fellow travellers. Once UK indie polymath Ian Button (Death In Vegas, Papernut Cambridge) agreed to contribute - and master the record - the project took on a life of its own. Rudy Trouve (dEUS, Kiss My Jazz, The Love Substitutes) came aboard to both contribute and create the artwork; Crispin Gray (Daisy Chainsaw, Queen Adreena, Dizzy Q Viper) remembered Brazen Hussies supporting his band and instantly said yes. From there it spiralled into a full-blown love-in featuring some key figures of the Antwerp music scene: Kloot Per W, Elko Blijweert (Dead Man Ray, Front 242, Kiss My Jazz, Gruppo Di Pawlowski); former dEUS guitarist Craig Ward, marking his first commercially released track since 2017; Benny Zen, also returning in 2025 with their first album since 2017. Sleep It Off isn't just a tribute - these covers twist the original songs into entirely new shapes, a testament both to the artists involved and the strength of the source material. It's a celebration of a band too wild to stay in step, revived by the musicians that Jezus Factory admire and have released in various guises over the last two decades. Tracklisting>> 1. Papernut Cambridge - Pop Song 2. Benny Zen - Forgot More Than I Ever Knew 3. Elko Blijweert - Sleep It Off 4. Heyme - Salt Leak 5. David Cronenberg's Wife - I Looked Into Your Eyes 6. Donkey Diesel - Fleur 7. Sjoerd Bruil - Crawfish 8. Jon Doe One - Scrape 9. Harvesters - Wet Shelter 10. Kloot Per W - Thin Lips 11. Rudy Trouve - Forgot More Than I Ever Knew 12. Jereon Stevens - Touch It 13. Starsha Lee - The Whole World Envies Us 14. Dolk - Heavy Electricity 15. Craig Ward - Bridesville 16. Brazen Hussies - Scrape (Somerville Version)