Frankie And The Witch Fingers - Trash ClassicLos Angeles psych punk shapeshifters Frankie and the Witch Fingers have spent the last decade mutating their sound into bold, electrifying new forms. Their latest release, Trash Classic (via Greenway Records and The Reverberation Appreciation Society), plunges into a sewer slick fusion of proto punk venom, fractured new wave, and industrial grime. Brimming with wiry synths, angular melodies, and grooves that squirm and bite, its all delivered with a

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psychedelic experience that few of their peers were ever able to match

a prime example of the kind of marvelously over-the-top pieces that made him a byword for eccentricity

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the first seven tracks written and performed by Sonic Boom a

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Don Christensen’s productions have been careful to not scrub up those original recordings so much that they lose their original vibe

Synths help soothe the sharp edges and lull you into some out of body experience whilst and orchestrated calamitous scree pulls you back…

layered around four different five-note melodies that recur either as single string statements triple-track or stark chords supporting them

Here is an album with meaning - here is truth