Brooklyn band Bedridden return with the latest single, “Philadelphia Get Me Through,” from their debut album Moths Strapped To Eachother’s Backs, out April 11, 2025, via Philadelphia-based tastemaker label Julia’s War Recordings.
“Philadelphia Get Me Through” races forward with righteous anger over driving drums and buoyed by urgent riffs. Holding onto the idea that Philadelphia can erase the past, Bedridden slams through discontent in an attempt to move forward.
“This is the most charged song I wrote for ‘Moths,’” bandleader Jack Riley says. “I was hyper-aware that I was losing it at the time. I was chasing a relationship that only made me feel belittled. Bedridden took a day trip out to Philly to play a show with Worlds Worst and I thought that having a good night away from Brooklyn would cure me. It didn’t. Soon after, I dug up this angular, repetitive riff in a 5/4 time signature and found the melody quickly. The song crescendos into damn near a metal track. Nick wrote an incredible drum part. I had the perfect groundwork for a diss track.”
A collection of ten songs recorded last year at Studio G and produced by Momma’s Aron Kobayashi Ritch, Bedridden’s imminent debut is a thrashing but tight-edged look at tumultuous adult life. The first previews of the record arrived last month in the form of “Etch” and “Chainsaw.”
Bedridden began in New Orleans when Riley was in college, and continued when he moved to New York and he enlisted bassist Sebastian Duzian and drummer Nicholas Pedroza to form a live band. The initial lineup shared their debut EP, Amateur Heartthrob in 2023, which includes fan-favorite songs like “Clara’s Mouth” and “Soft Soap.” Now a Brooklyn-based project, the trio recently added guitarist Wesley Wolffe to the mix.
