New York-based purveyors of non-conformist garage rock, punk, and Americana, St. Divine, have officially announced the release of their debut full-length album, The Devil You Know. Dropping on June 12th via Reel to Reel Records, the record is a molotov cocktail of dissent, sensuality, and melodic menace.
The Devil You Know exudes snarl, feist, and bad romance. It is a record built on the energy of whiskey-soaked nights, a cool death rattle, and carpe diem impulsiveness. Untethered rawness and authenticity take center stage in a scrappy collection that lets go of the wheel completely, wearing its bloody punk heart with pride.
The album serves as a snapshot of a powerful “his, hers, and ours” songwriting collaboration between Will Croxton and Judy Ann Nock. Together, they inject a punk and garage rawness into an expanding Americana sensibility, creating themes that are deeply personal, political, and darkly romantic.
“This album came straight from authentic New York subculture. It conjures the energy of fast cars and dive bars, heartbreak, with a hint of hope for our tangled times.”
The album’s emotional gravity is anchored by its title track and single, “The Devil That You Know,” a darkly romantic duet detailing anguish, love, regret, and grief. Written by Judy Ann Nock, the song is a melodic interpretation of events that occurred almost five years ago when her husband, David, took his own life. The intensely sad chorus wails, “Let me, let me lie in the bed I made, …let me lie in an early grave,” capturing the intense guilt often felt by suicide survivors.
“My husband David suffered from the mother of all mental illnesses; schizophrenia, paranoid type,” says Judy Ann Nock. “One of his symptoms was aural hallucinations and I wanted to try to understand how that might have felt for him, with many voices firing off all at once.”
This title track follows the limited-release diss track “30 Dolls” (named Jim Testa’s Constant Listener Song of the Week) and the wildly popular “SPIT,” which garnered highly favorable reviews across The Big Takeover, Vents, Nashville Music Guide, and Hella Fuzz.
Formed in 2024, St. Divine quickly made their mark with the widely acclaimed May 2025 release of their debut EP, you can’t go forward and you can’t go back. Their distinct sound has drawn high-profile comparisons to PJ Harvey & Nick Cave, Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra (Jim Derogatis, Sound Opinions), and The Kills (Eduard Banulescu, ALT 77).
Since their inception, the band has achieved significant global exposure, racking up over 350 independent and college radio spins. Notably, they have been featured on the NPR syndicated show Sound Opinions (featuring Jim Derogatis and Greg Kot), WFMU, and the SiriusXM channel Little Steven Van Zandt’s Underground Garage.
The band has also been building a formidable live presence, recently playing the Hideout in Chicago alongside The Handcuffs (featuring Brad Elvis of the Elvis Brothers and the Romantics), sharing the stage in Somerville, MA with Girl With a Hawk, and playing New York City with The Cynz.
