You died.” It’s emblematic of the dystopic punk that has made Pissed Jeans successful: bleak as hell, and funny.įor a while, Korvette kept his musical aspirations hidden from his colleagues-no one wants to be the guy at work who brags about his band, or the guy whose successful band’s repertoire consists of songs about finding joy in his coworkers’ demise. On their last album, 2013’s Honeys, Korvette sang about the death of an imaginary coworker in “Cafeteria Food”: “People walking around looking sorry. Pissed Jeans’ primary shtick has been to scream about mundanity, creating drama out of the ordinary for the sake of not dying from boredom.
