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Skin & Blisters (Source Records)
Release date: 10.30.2026
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A lot of songwriters might use their craft as a means to process life, but not many end up with a wild end result like Disgusting Sisters. A winning mix of horror, humour, musical influences that span from electro to emo and a wealth of joint experience, it speaks to a childhood of pet rats and pranks; world-building and wicked games. “We've both had very chaotic lives, so this first album is us trying to put all that chaos together and give it some form,” suggests Josephine Hopkins, as her sister Julianna nods: “It’s the outlet for all that.”
Enter the duo’s whirlwind debut Skin & Blisters: a record that comes good on all the tongue-in-cheek, slightly gruesome yet perpetually entertaining promise that their name - partly a homage to Succession’s “Disgusting Brothers”; partly a reference to the “bad sisters from Cinderella because we kind of feel like them on stage” - suggests. Across 11 tracks, the pair aim their lasers at hopeless exes and sugar daddies; productivity punishers and the sad drudge of the 9-5. Their delivery is riddled with deadpan absurdity, but at their core, Disgusting Sisters mean every word. “I hope people can relate to the songs because they really come from inside us,” says Josephine. “All the lyrics are inspired by real moments. We're not trying to pretend andI think that's what makes us kind of fresh - we're just being ourselves.”
It all starts to click into place when you understand the character-forming experiences they’ve had to draw from. “We were very tortured teenagers,” Josephine says. “We grew up in London until the ages of seven and nine but then our parents split up, so we moved with our mum to the south of France. She would rent out our house to tourists every summer so we had to live in a campsite 100 metres away in a tent. We were stranded for three months a year so we’d get up to the worst stuff - dying our hair, listening to emo music, buying alcohol which was supposed to be for burning things but it was only two euros, picking up cigarette butts from the petanque [course]...”
“We just always wanted to do what we weren’t allowed to do. We always wanted to take it a step further,” Julianna nods. “When we were really young, we’d secretly go and watch the films we knew we weren’t allowed to watch. It was rebellious but then it also helped develop our passion for horror. And even though we did have weird upbringings, it brought us closer because everything we did, we did together.”
Their wildcard spirit and innate creativity came to peak fruition one fateful Christmas evening at the end of 2023 when Disgusting Sisters were born. In the interim years, both siblings had carved out separate careers in different countries and different areas of the arts. Julianna had moved to London to study music, spending years drumming in bands and working in events; Josephine lives in Paris and works as a screenwriter and director for horror films. They’d always talked about making something together, but they’d never actually attempted it until that night.
“We wrote this silly emo song about our mum’s dog wanting to break free, but the melodies were actually really good!” Julianna recalls. Over the same holiday period, they continued to write three more original tracks. Two of them - "Not Cool" and "Baby K" - now sit as key moments on their first record. The former lands with an audible eyeroll, its central character a mix of “brainstormed memories of all of our exes, combined into this one guy”. The latter winks with the double entendre of an ill-advised “kamikaze” love affair, delivered via cheeky nods to everyone’s favourite horse tranquiliser. While the majority of ‘Skin and Blisters’ is an impressively DIY project - written and recorded by the band with the help of producer and live bassist James McManus - these early offerings were beefed up for the album with the help of producer Oli Bayston (Barry Can’t Swim, Rachel Chinouriri), giving a heavier nod to some of the pair’s more indie-centric influences, from Viagra Boys to Getdown Services.
Josephine and Julianna are two halves of the same Disgusting coin and you can hear it in everything they write: a collection of memorable bangers whose lyrics read like sisterly in-jokes that they’ve decided to let the world in on. Take single "Weirdo Magnet" - a prowling stalk of a track that fully embraces its inner freak. “It’s about feeling like, whatever you do, you always end up attracting weird people. But at the same time, it's saying to embrace the weirdness because we've all got these faults and you can't erase them. You might as well celebrate them because your weirdness is unique,” says Josephine.
On the infectious, wryly unapologetic "Sorry Mister", the pair imagine “going on a night out and meeting all these different characters of men, imagining what life with those guys would be like and saying, ‘I don’t want to offend you but I prefer my sister’,” Josephine explains. "Sugar", meanwhile, might be their most hilarious offering yet: an ode to a much, much, much older lover who - despite being a bit of a misogynist with bad eyesight and repulsive toenails - has one redeeming feature (we’ll leave the punchline to them).
Throughout, the aim is “for every song to be really catchy and an earworm,” says Julianna. “We want it to be something we want to listen to on repeat. That’s really important.” Having gone through obsessive phases of loving everything from My Chemical Romance to Lily Allen, Pulp to Parisian alt-pop outfit The DØ, the through line is a focus on hooks. One particular set of heroes, Hot Chip, even co-signed previous single TGIF with a remix: a sure sign that Disgusting Sisters are on the right path.
There have been plenty more of those moments too. Recently, the band completed their first sold-out UK headline tour, while in just over two years they’ve gone from total novices to playing Reading and Leeds, The Great Escape and Pitchfork Paris, as well as supporting Two Door Cinema Club in Ireland and Freak Slug in London. Having concocted a world of sass and satire, horror and hilarity, all centered around the implicit bond of a thousand conversations about a thousand things held across their entire lives, now they’re fully inviting their listeners in.
It comes to a touching head on "Frankenstein" - a ballad written about the passing of their father when they were teenagers, told through the medium of stitched together memories. “We'd search for different details we remembered of our dad in people we'd meet. It was a weird way of creating a Frankenstein, trying to bring him back to life through these different relationships,” explains Josephine.
A heartfelt tribute that still sees the world through the siblings’ creative, unlikely lens, it cements the outlook of Skin & Blisters and Disgusting Sisters as a whole: playful and brimming with character, but also completely true to themselves. “It’s kind of like [sibling horror film] Ginger Snaps, where you’ve got two sisters being kids and being innocent, but at the same time doing super gruesome stuff. That’s the mix that we're looking for,” says Josephine. “What’s always resonated with us is that kind of weirdness and those kinds of movies and worlds,” Julianna nods. “I think this album is just a snapshot of our everyday reality."
Apple Music
Bandcamp
Spotify
Tidal
TikTok
YouTube
A lot of songwriters might use their craft as a means to process life, but not many end up with a wild end result like Disgusting Sisters. A winning mix of horror, humour, musical influences that span from electro to emo and a wealth of joint experience, it speaks to a childhood of pet rats and pranks; world-building and wicked games. “We've both had very chaotic lives, so this first album is us trying to put all that chaos together and give it some form,” suggests Josephine Hopkins, as her sister Julianna nods: “It’s the outlet for all that.”
Enter the duo’s whirlwind debut Skin & Blisters: a record that comes good on all the tongue-in-cheek, slightly gruesome yet perpetually entertaining promise that their name - partly a homage to Succession’s “Disgusting Brothers”; partly a reference to the “bad sisters from Cinderella because we kind of feel like them on stage” - suggests. Across 11 tracks, the pair aim their lasers at hopeless exes and sugar daddies; productivity punishers and the sad drudge of the 9-5. Their delivery is riddled with deadpan absurdity, but at their core, Disgusting Sisters mean every word. “I hope people can relate to the songs because they really come from inside us,” says Josephine. “All the lyrics are inspired by real moments. We're not trying to pretend andI think that's what makes us kind of fresh - we're just being ourselves.”
It all starts to click into place when you understand the character-forming experiences they’ve had to draw from. “We were very tortured teenagers,” Josephine says. “We grew up in London until the ages of seven and nine but then our parents split up, so we moved with our mum to the south of France. She would rent out our house to tourists every summer so we had to live in a campsite 100 metres away in a tent. We were stranded for three months a year so we’d get up to the worst stuff - dying our hair, listening to emo music, buying alcohol which was supposed to be for burning things but it was only two euros, picking up cigarette butts from the petanque [course]...”
“We just always wanted to do what we weren’t allowed to do. We always wanted to take it a step further,” Julianna nods. “When we were really young, we’d secretly go and watch the films we knew we weren’t allowed to watch. It was rebellious but then it also helped develop our passion for horror. And even though we did have weird upbringings, it brought us closer because everything we did, we did together.”
Their wildcard spirit and innate creativity came to peak fruition one fateful Christmas evening at the end of 2023 when Disgusting Sisters were born. In the interim years, both siblings had carved out separate careers in different countries and different areas of the arts. Julianna had moved to London to study music, spending years drumming in bands and working in events; Josephine lives in Paris and works as a screenwriter and director for horror films. They’d always talked about making something together, but they’d never actually attempted it until that night.
“We wrote this silly emo song about our mum’s dog wanting to break free, but the melodies were actually really good!” Julianna recalls. Over the same holiday period, they continued to write three more original tracks. Two of them - "Not Cool" and "Baby K" - now sit as key moments on their first record. The former lands with an audible eyeroll, its central character a mix of “brainstormed memories of all of our exes, combined into this one guy”. The latter winks with the double entendre of an ill-advised “kamikaze” love affair, delivered via cheeky nods to everyone’s favourite horse tranquiliser. While the majority of ‘Skin and Blisters’ is an impressively DIY project - written and recorded by the band with the help of producer and live bassist James McManus - these early offerings were beefed up for the album with the help of producer Oli Bayston (Barry Can’t Swim, Rachel Chinouriri), giving a heavier nod to some of the pair’s more indie-centric influences, from Viagra Boys to Getdown Services.
Josephine and Julianna are two halves of the same Disgusting coin and you can hear it in everything they write: a collection of memorable bangers whose lyrics read like sisterly in-jokes that they’ve decided to let the world in on. Take single "Weirdo Magnet" - a prowling stalk of a track that fully embraces its inner freak. “It’s about feeling like, whatever you do, you always end up attracting weird people. But at the same time, it's saying to embrace the weirdness because we've all got these faults and you can't erase them. You might as well celebrate them because your weirdness is unique,” says Josephine.
On the infectious, wryly unapologetic "Sorry Mister", the pair imagine “going on a night out and meeting all these different characters of men, imagining what life with those guys would be like and saying, ‘I don’t want to offend you but I prefer my sister’,” Josephine explains. "Sugar", meanwhile, might be their most hilarious offering yet: an ode to a much, much, much older lover who - despite being a bit of a misogynist with bad eyesight and repulsive toenails - has one redeeming feature (we’ll leave the punchline to them).
Throughout, the aim is “for every song to be really catchy and an earworm,” says Julianna. “We want it to be something we want to listen to on repeat. That’s really important.” Having gone through obsessive phases of loving everything from My Chemical Romance to Lily Allen, Pulp to Parisian alt-pop outfit The DØ, the through line is a focus on hooks. One particular set of heroes, Hot Chip, even co-signed previous single TGIF with a remix: a sure sign that Disgusting Sisters are on the right path.
There have been plenty more of those moments too. Recently, the band completed their first sold-out UK headline tour, while in just over two years they’ve gone from total novices to playing Reading and Leeds, The Great Escape and Pitchfork Paris, as well as supporting Two Door Cinema Club in Ireland and Freak Slug in London. Having concocted a world of sass and satire, horror and hilarity, all centered around the implicit bond of a thousand conversations about a thousand things held across their entire lives, now they’re fully inviting their listeners in.
It comes to a touching head on "Frankenstein" - a ballad written about the passing of their father when they were teenagers, told through the medium of stitched together memories. “We'd search for different details we remembered of our dad in people we'd meet. It was a weird way of creating a Frankenstein, trying to bring him back to life through these different relationships,” explains Josephine.
A heartfelt tribute that still sees the world through the siblings’ creative, unlikely lens, it cements the outlook of Skin & Blisters and Disgusting Sisters as a whole: playful and brimming with character, but also completely true to themselves. “It’s kind of like [sibling horror film] Ginger Snaps, where you’ve got two sisters being kids and being innocent, but at the same time doing super gruesome stuff. That’s the mix that we're looking for,” says Josephine. “What’s always resonated with us is that kind of weirdness and those kinds of movies and worlds,” Julianna nods. “I think this album is just a snapshot of our everyday reality."