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The Treadmills of Love
Hunter Valentine fight forlornness with punk-rook pluck
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Kiyomi McCloskey answers her buzz
ing cell phone on a Friday afternoon in
Brooklyn. Her voice is trembling a bit, and
her focus seems half-splintered. She’s just
been informed that a close friend—a party
promoter and queer arts advocate in her
Toronto, Ontario suburb of Queen West
named Will Munro—has passed away. It’s
obviously not a good time for an interview.
We reschedule as I awkwardly fumble con
dolences and eventually hang up the phone.
McCloskey—vocalist/guitarist of now-
Brooklyn-based pop-punk trio Hunter Val
entine—returns the following week with a
clearer head, a tender rasp choking a string of
strangely Californian inflections, like a
Malibu beach bum turned
deadly serious
prognosticator of DIY rock ‘n’ roll. Though
I know it’s slightly farfetched, I imagine I’m
speaking with a pre-Runaways Joan Jett, all
gruff and intent on turning the world on its
ear—in photographs, McCloskey (bottom
left) even looks a little like Jett. But whereas
the sass of early ‘80s, girl-fronted hard rock
survived on its stoic défoulement of effemi
nate anchors, Hunter Valentine owns their
femininity, and throws it right back with a
pair of earplugs.
McCloskey’s turnabout from a few days
earlier, in essence, runs parallel to the ap
proach she, along with bassist Adrienne
Lloyd (bottom middle) and drummer
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the band’s emotive songwriting regimen.
Particularly on the group’s new album, Les
sons From the Late Night, their slightly-more-
than-three-chord punk rock slices through
tales of broken bonds, heartbreak, longing,
loss and, eventually, redemption and the
ability to overcome. It’s McCloskey’s perse
verance, it seems, in all areas that makes her
music sing.
Lessons was released May 11 on Tommy
Boy Entertainment—the trio’s first full-
length for the stalwart label—and was
introduced somewhat profoundly by a
Guinness World Record-breaking 13 shows
performed in one day in New York City. This
big stateside splash took place in venues as
legitimate as live radio broadcasts and on
MTV, to slightly less inviting locales—the
platform of the Metropolitan/
Lorimer train stop in the hip
den of Williamsburg.
“The goal was 12,” Mc
Closkey explained of the
group’s Tour de NYC.
“We had an extra one
because we did an
impromptu
perfor
mance on the subway.
Apparently we broke
the world record. ... I
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