Fingers-To-Toejams Edition: Toebow, W.H. Lung & Frankie And The Witch Fingers
By Aaron Stein Sep 25, 2019 • 2:23 pm PDT
Toebow: Themes
A quick three picks for you this week, three great albums that I haven’t been able to feature yet that happen to highlight three parts of the body. First up is New York City’s Toebow, the kind of band that is quintessentially New York, with a bunch of friends and former bandmates from here and there finally getting together and putting out that album after years playing together. That album is Themes, which came out back in May, and it’s a bubbly treat of candy-coated weirdness. Part Delicate Steve, part Dirty Projectors, part over-the-horizon, part instrumental and a whole lot of fun. Try not to wiggle your toes to this one, it’s a treat!
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W.H. Lung: Incidental Music
In between the fingers and toes are, of course, the lungs. You’ll want to take a deep breath before diving into Incidental Music, the debut full-length from Manchester U.K.-based band W.H. Lung out back in the spring. It opens with a 10-minute jammer that rides on the bands matched double strength of pop-funk and head-spinning krautjams. Somehow the album still kind of finds room to grow on you from there with plenty of twists and plenty of grooves, a rawer, less-sprawling LCD Soundsytem, equally appropriate for the dancefloor or the headphones. Check it out, I think you’ll dig.
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Frankie and the Witch Fingers: ZAM
And finally we make it to those fingers, Frankie and the Witch Fingers to be precise. Their newest, ZAM came out way back in March and dang, I should’ve pushed this one onto you right away back then, because then you could have been rocking out to one of the surefire jammers of 2019. The Witch Fingers are an explosion of Los Angeles psychpunk, a don’t-stand-too-close greasefire rage of rock and roll in the mold of Thee Oh Sees. Hair-raising, sweat-inducing, 11-killer-tracks-worth of fuck-yeah, if ZAM has somehow eluded your radar, please don’t waste another moment. Enjoy!
