Over the past five years, Godcaster has become an unmissable force in the underground music world, carving out a space alongside bands like Model/Actriz and Water From Your Eyes in New York’s avant-rock scene. Fueled by electrifying live performances and a relentless creative drive, they’ve built a cult-like following through word-of-mouth buzz and their two acclaimed albums—2020’s Long Haired Locusts and their self-titled 2023 release. NPR hailed them as “one of the most promising groups in the booming East Coast avant-rock underground,” while Pitchfork praised their “inventive art-rock on a monumental scale,” and Rolling Stone named them one of the best bands at SXSW 2024.
Between their 2019 debut EP and their 2023 LP, Godcaster unleashed a near-manic burst of creativity, dropping two full-length albums, two EPs, and a stack of singles in just over three years. But for the past 18 months, they’ve been eerily quiet—until now.
Today, Godcaster returns with a thrilling new single, “Judy Living Daylights,” produced by none other than Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes. Alongside the release, they’re announcing an explosive April residency at NYC’s Night Club 101, a four-night spectacle featuring an eclectic lineup of support acts, including Brutus VIII, Asher White, Macula Dog, Babybaby_explores, and members of Feivel is Glauque, Model/Actriz, and fantasy of a broken heart. Each night will also feature a short play staged by BODY LIARS, a serialized four-act performance unfolding across the residency.
“Judy Living Daylights” is a fever dream of a song—a holograph girl with a morphine laugh, a hazy heartbreak, surgery, and pain meds. Judson Kolk leans into lyrical clichés, repurposing familiar phrases into something surreal and unsettling: “I see right through her morphine drip of a laugh,” he sings, “those words untrue, taste like morphine until you drift away.”
Full details on Godcaster’s Night Club 101 residency are below—get ready for one of the most ambitious and unpredictable live experiences of the year.