Local Review: P.S. Destroy This – Glitter Pussy 3,000

P.S. Destroy This

Glitter Pussy 3,000
Fairyland
Street: 09.28.2025
P.S. Destroy This = Bikini Kill + World of Pleasure

In a day and age where punk music so often gets co-opted by mealy-mouthed wannabes who cash in on punk aesthetics without ever risking a truly radical stance, it’s always inspiring to hear a punk record that hazards direct confrontation with the institutions running (ruining) the world. P.S. Destroy This debut LP, Glitter Pussy 3,000, is a record of this caliber and integrity. In a brief 20 minutes that’s densely packed with crunchy guitar riffs, riotous screaming and intestine-pulverizing drumbeats, P.S. Destroy This takes on patriarchy, transphobia and also fascism in no uncertain terms. 

Track One: I.B.S. – Flippant Yet Honest

The album begins with the relatively lighthearted “I.B.S.,” a 21-second warmup on which co-vocalists Teagan Stewart and Allyson Katana screech back and forth about shitting their pants while drummer Sammy Jones takes their drum kit to the ring for a grudge match. This flippantly scatological opener might seem like a strange introduction for an album that has serious things to say, but it establishes something key to the whole record’s ethos: Glitter Pussy 3,000 refuses to curtail its brazen honesty for mere palatability.  

Track Two: Yr Mom and Beyond – Calling Out Male Bullshit

After this plucky opening, P.S. Destroy This launches into the moshable “Yr Mom,” a diss track about every manbaby who paradoxically hates his mother, but also expects the women in his life to thanklessly mother him. Here, while Stewart screams lines like, “I won’t do that / I won’t wipe your ass,” Katana bounces back and forth between guttural howling and derisive crooning — à la Poly Styrene — giving the song an edge of playful mockery. 

This second track is far from the only time the record calls out male bullshit. “Roaches” calls out absentee fathers, “Eat Me” takes down cocky and privileged “cool guys,” and “High School Girl” harangues grown men who prey on emotionally vulnerable teenagers rather than dating women their own age. The lyric “You’d think a groomer / Would have better hygiene” from this song is a great example of the acerbic wit the band brings throughout the album. 

Track Three: Safe – Fighting Systemic Misogyny

Glitter Pussy 3,000 does more than just lodge grievances with men as individuals, though; it also elucidates the dire and far-reaching repercussions of systemic misogyny. This is done best on the record’s third track, “Safe,” with the lyrics, “Let’s remember where our fight even starts / With young girls dying, hangers in hand / With women throwing bricks at a wall / Di-vided / Trans women dead in our streets / Beaten by the fucking police.” By connecting the actions of individual misogynists to the devastating impacts of misogynistic institutions, P.S. Destroy This shows how the struggle against patriarchy is about more than just incompetent men, sexist jokes and microaggressions. It’s literally a life and death issue. It always has been.

P.S. Destroy This Captures the Energy of Live Performance

Like any good punk album, Glitter Pussy 3,000 marries its anti-establishment messaging to bellicose guitar licks, danceable basslines and rapid-fire drumbeats. As someone who has been to several P.S. Destroy This shows, I can say that this record perfectly captures the raucousness of their live set — where I’ve seen agitate teenagers thrashing so hard they knock art off of walls and make cement floors ripple like a glass of water as a T-rex approaches. 

Closing Track: Bikini Kill’s “Suck My Left One”

The album closes with a cover of Bikini Kill’s “Suck My Left One.” This version successfully honors its gritty source material, but P.S. Destroy This also makes the song their own by adding some hardcore stank to their vocals and boosting the low end of the mix, accentuating the rollicking bass and kickdrum. The result is a refreshing but also familiar take on this riot grrrl classic.

P.S. Destroy This Encourages Supporting Local Punk

Glitter Pussy 3,000 is now available to stream everywhere, but if you want to ensure P.S. Destroy This actually gets paid for their hard work, you should purchase a digital copy on Bandcamp. As we enter another agonizing year, the patriarchal shadow of tyranny continues to lengthen. Yet this fire from our local punk scene might stoke your rage. It can also illuminate the path toward a better future. —Joe Roberts

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