Downtown Boys “Public Luxury” LP

THIS IS A PREORDER. IT SHIPS JUNE 2026

Any orders containing a "Pre-Order" item will ship together when the pre-order ships. Please make a separate order if you wish to receive non pre-order items before the pre-order ship date.

• Downtown Boys' long-awaited return on Sub Pop - a massive, politically charged fusion of punk, Latin traditions, saxophone, and synths nearly a decade in the making.
• For fans of: Lambrini Girls, Priests, Surfbort, Amyl and the Sniffers, Protomartyr

Color Vinyl

Downtown Boys have pushed relentlessly forward as an artistic and political project since their founding. Singer Victoria Marie and guitarist/singer Joey La Neve DeFrancesco first met at union meetings while working together at a hotel in Providence, RI. The quintet is completed by saxophonist-synthesist Joe DeGeorge, bassist Mary Jane Regalado, and drummer Joey Doubek.

Now, Downtown Boys have arrived with Public Luxury on Sub Pop Records, an enthralling new record that keeps politics front and center while summoning the band's most urgent and powerful sound to date. Co-produced by DeFrancesco and recording engineer Seth Manchester (Lambrini Girls, Lightning Bolt, Model/Actriz), the album was created at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket, RI - not far from the band's first home of Providence.

Public Luxury means "everything for everyone" - the stubborn insistence that a better world is possible, while fully recognizing the horrors we witness daily, and the individual and collective responsibility to resist nihilism and hopelessness. Punk and indie roots mix with Latin traditions, drum machines blend with acoustic drums, saxophones both support and interject between riffs, and layers of synths blend with guitars to create blankets of melodic texture.