Gen and the Degenerates line up second album Earthly Delights and release Sex Symbol
Gen and the Degenerates have announced their second studio album, Earthly Delights, due out on 8 January 2027 via Marshall Records, and shared a new single, Sex Symbol, to mark the news.
The track arrives as a jagged, synth-led slice of dance-punk, with frontperson Genevieve Glynn-Reeves using it to pick apart the way the female body is read, projected on and fetishised. The band have also shared the video and opened pre-orders for the album, with the single available to stream now.
Glynn-Reeves says the song is aimed squarely at the assumptions that get projected onto her appearance. “People make strange assumptions about my personality and morality based on my body. They think because I’m overtly feminine and curvy that I must be flirtatous or highly sexual when in reality it’s them who are sexualising something that I have no control over. I can wear the same exact outfit as a very slender person and be perceived totally differently in it. I’m pointing out the hypocrisy and taking a tongue in cheek look at what society expects me to be,” she says.
She also expands the idea into wider questions around how marginalised bodies are both stigmatised and fetishised. “This song is both an analysis of this phenomenon, and a rejection of it,” she adds.
Earthly Delights is presented as the trio’s most fully realised record so far, produced by Michael Champion and Paul Whalley, and shaped around identity, grief, sexuality and modern life. The title draws on Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, which the band use as a reference point for a record that circles the same big human obsessions from a very contemporary angle.
“This album isn’t about anything new. It’s about the same things humans have always made art about; sex and death and love and power,” the band say. “The album is about this moment in history, through concepts and contradictions that are timeless and internal; there’s no grief without love, there’s no joy in life without knowing it ends. Sex and death. Earthly Delights.”
The album comes with the following track listing:
- I Used To Be Charming
- Hotter On The Internet
- Rich Boyfriend
- It’s A Lot
- It Can Always Get Worse
- Party At The End Of The Universe
- Favourite Jumper
- Sex Symbol
- We Should Do This Again Sometime
- Honey You’re Still In The Game
The band are also set for a run of shows in Paris before joining PUP on selected UK dates next month, with London, Sheffield and Brighton all on the bill. They will then head to Wigan and Bristol later in the year.
- 23 Jun – Supersonic Marshall Night – Paris, FR
- 25 Jun – FNAC Bercy Punk Month Show + signing – Paris, FR
- 4 Jul – Signature Brew Blackhorse Road – London, UK *
- 5 Jul – Foundry – Sheffield, UK *
- 6 Jul – Chalk – Brighton, UK *
- 11 Jul – The Walled Gardens – Wigan, UK (Haigh Live)
- 3 Oct – Loco Klub, Bristol, UK (Commoner’s Fair)
* Supporting PUP
