Coup Sauvage & the Snips Heirs to Nothing

Coup Sauvage & the Snips released the debut album Heirs to Nothing in 2017. The band mixed disco, punk, and soul with feminist politics, theatricality, and high camp — earning us the title of “the city’s newest protest music” from the Washington City Paper.

The album confronts street harassment, the politics of representation, and turning dancefloors into sites of liberation. The self-titled track “Heir” is a gospel-house takedown of gentrification, warning urban pioneers and one-percenters that your condo will not protect you.

The album also introduced my character Kristina Sauvage, a “radical, glamorous, delusional” alter ego that took inspiration from black artists and thinkers as varied as Adrian Piper, Aime Cesaire, and Jackee Harry.