Try Me (Self Defense Family album)

Try Me is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Self Defense Family and first under this moniker — previous studio albums were released under the name End of a Year. The album was released on January 7, 2014 through Deathwish Inc. In November 2013, the band released a lyric video for the track "Turn the Fan On." The album was available on the digital music streaming service Spotify over a month before its official release date.

Contents

• Self defense family try me teaser
• Critical reception
• Songs
• References

Try Me features an approximately 40-minute-long interview with the 1980s pornographic actress Angelique Bernstein (known by industry name, Jeanna Fine), split between two tracks titled "Angelique, Pt. 1" and "Angelique, Pt. 2". The interview was conducted by Self Defense Family vocalist Patrick Kindlon and guitarist Andrew Duggan in a motel in New York City, and the original recording is over three hours long. The portion of the interview that appears on Try Me tells Bernstein's early life, including as Lukas Hodge of Noisey puts it, her "fatherless, bullied, sexually confused childhood, to living on couches and in doorways, to an abusive relationship, told in disturbing detail, in which she essentially becomes a prisoner," but ends before she can get into her porn career. About the interview Kindlon said, "She's just an interesting person. She has an amazing personal history and you don't need an interest in pornography to find her story compelling. You just need an interest in human beings."