Label: Third Man

Released 2/20/2026

With their roots firmly planted in Detroit’s Cass Corridor punk rock and hardcore scene of the early 80s, John Brannon (Negative Approach) and Larissa Strickland (L-Seven), along with the locked in rhythm section of Kevin Strickland and Jim Kimball later (after Kevin and Jim left to form Mule) Ron Sakowski (Necros) taking over on bass and Todd Swalla (Necros) handling drum duty, the Laughing Hyenas took it to a completely different plane. Taking pointers from The Birthday Party and Funhouse era Stooges as well as early blues and jazz artists, the Laughing Hyenas were a fierce, sulfuric blast of noise. The sinister and hypnotic bass riffs, and tribal swing laid the perfect framework for Larissa’s (she only picked up a guitar a couple months before the band was born) slicing, jagged, she might even be murdering that thing guitar playing and John Brannon’s devilish howl.

Track listing:

1. That Girl
   
2. Sister
   
3. Lullaby And Goodnight
   
4. Love's My Only Crime
5. Here We Go Again
   
6. Public Animal #9
   
7. Black Cloud
   
8. Crawl
9. Let It Burn
   
10. Everything I Want
    
11. Dedications To The One I Love
    
12. Seven Come Eleven
    
13. Wild Heart
14. Just Can’t Win
    
15. Each Dawn I Die
    
16. I Want You Right Now

Limited Edition 7"

1. Stain
   
2. Hell’s Kitchen
3. Playground