After a grueling nine-year wait, the iconic Philadelphia punk band, The Dead Milkmen, announces the arrival of their upcoming album, “Quaker City Quiet Pills,” to be released on June 9th by The Giving Groove. Accompanying the launch is their first single, “Grandpa’s Not A Racist (He Just Voted For One),”. A ruthless, melodically-appealing first track, it ridicules the mind-boggling attempts of defending a grandparent who voted for Trump.

“Quaker City Quiet Pills” are driven by the familiar combination of punchy punk melodies, lighthearted humor, and sharp social commentaries which has characterized the band’s influence on the punk scene for the past four decades. With all four members engaged in the songwriting process, the resulting sound is as diverse and eccentric as ever. Tracks range from “Philadelphia Femdom” a BDSM-inspired number, to “The New York Guide to Art” a humorous jazzy parody, to “Astral Dad”, a creative piece that arose after Rodney Anonymous challenged Joe to write a song about astral projection. Lead vocalist/keyboardist Rodney also adds some of his wildest work to date. His tongue-in-cheek number “How Do You Even Manage to Exist” criticizes indecisive take-out customers (“I’m poking fun at myself – I get mad at everything,” he quips). In “Hen’s Teeth and Goofa Dust” he supplies components for an invocation (“If someone is working a spell in the future, that should do it,” he muses). Lastly, he acts out the part of a morally corrupted white supremacist in “We Are (Clearly Not) the Master Race”.

Listen to the new single below:

Artwork by Joe Jack. https://t.co/NdW35t4vhC pic.twitter.com/W3uPmNZZBs

— The Dead Milkmen (@deadmilkmen) April 12, 2023

Quaker City Quiet Pills Tracklisting:

1. Grandpa’s Not A Racist (He Just Voted For One)
2. Philadelphia Femdom
3. Musical Chairs
4. The King of Sick
5. Albert Square
6. Astral Dad
7. We Have Always Lived in The Compound
8. We Are (Clearly Not) The Master Race
9. How Do You Even Manage To Exist
10. God Wrote Cum Junkie
11. Hen’s Teeth and Goofa Dust
12. Melt Into The Night
13. The New York Guide to Art