🚛 - Pre-Order expected to ship April 3rd 2026
Pleasure, shame, and survival often arrive tangled together, indistinguishable in the moment. Camgirl, from Crippling Alcoholism, takes that entanglement as its starting point. Rather than separating desire from damage, the record allows them to coexist, tracing a path through obsession, performance, and persistence without offering clean resolution.
Camgirl is the 2025 breakthrough album from Boston’s Crippling Alcoholism, a record that frames pop immediacy against obsession, endurance, and collapse. Built from ear-wormy hooks and abrasive noise rock textures, the album smuggles grotesque and confrontational subject matter into songs that remain deliberately melodic. Pleasure and revulsion blend throughout, with choruses that linger even as the lyrics refuse comfort.
Released on September 12, 2025,Camgirl follows a loose narrative centered on a sex worker moving through cycles of exploitation and survival, treating intimacy as spectacle and visibility as threat. Songs flicker between desire and despair, confession and performance, flooded with artificial light. Despite its subject matter, the record resists nihilism. Its closing moments arrive quietly triumphant, not through escape or redemption, but through persistence itself.
Originally released on vinyl by Portrayal of Guilt Records, the first pressing ofCamgirl sold out quickly. The Flenser reissue makes the album widely available for the first time, reaffirming it as a defining statement from a band operating at the intersection of pop form, noise, and lived experience.
Tracklisting:
01. Mr Sentimental
02. Sarah Wrapped Cash
03. LADIES' NIGHT (feat. Luxury Skin)
04. Pay Pigs
05. bedrot
06. Monet
07. Pretty in Pink (feat. Luxury Skin)
08. Pliers (feat. Luxury Skin)
09. screentime
10. I Have a Key to Your House
11. CAMGIRL
12. Sweet Talk (feat. Ameokama)
13. TARAVISTA (feat. Luxury Skin)
14. Mary Kate & Ashley
15. despair (feat. Latter)
Recorded and mixed by Eric Sauter at Blackheart Sound
Mastered by Dereck Blackburn at Quiethouse Recording
Artwork by Eric Rottcher
Vocal arrangements and vocal compositions on tracks 1, 2, 5, 10, 11, 12, 14 and 15 by Allison Rittwager
Composition and vocal performances on tracks 3, 7, 8 and 13 by Juliet Gordon
Composition and vocal performance on “Sweet Talk” by Aki McCullough
Composition and vocal performance on “despair” by Meredith Haines
