Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Mild Davis (Official Video)

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Los Angeles psych-punk quartet Frankie and the Witch Fingers have returned with their seventh studio album Data Doom, due September 1 via The Reverberation Appreciation Society / Greenway Records. To ring in the announcement, the band has shared album highlight “Mild Davis” with a mind-bending animated music video. Inspired by Miles Davis’ early-70s electric work, the track’s dizzying 7/4 meter winds through chunky riffs, commanding vocals and proggy synths before crash-landing in a minefield of angular guitar harmonies.
Over the past decade, Frankie and the Witch Fingers have operated as an outright force of nature, offering up a revelatory form of psych-rock that hits on both a primal and ecstatically mind-bending level. In the making of their new album Data Doom, the Los Angeles-based four-piece forged a sublimely galvanizing sound informed by their love of Afrobeat and proto-punk-a potent vessel for their frenetic meditations on technological change run rampant, encroaching fascism, and corrosive systems of power. Animated by the explosive energy they’ve brought to the stage in sharing bills with such eclectic acts as Ty Segall and ZZ Top, the result is a major leap forward for one of the most adventurous and forward-thinking bands working today.
Rooted in the cerebral yet viscerally commanding songwriting of co-founders Dylan Sizemore (vocals, guitar) and Josh Menashe (lead guitar, synth), Data Doom marks the first Frankie and the Witch Fingers album created with bassist Nikki “Pickle” Smith (formerly of Death Valley Girls) and drummer Nick Aguilar (previously a touring drummer for punk legend Mike Watt). In crafting their most rhythmically complex work to date, the band drew heavily from each new member’s distinct sensibilities: Smith tapped into her extensive background in West African drumming (an art form she first discovered thanks to her music-instructor parents), while Aguilar leaned into formative influences like longtime Fela Kuti drummer Tony Allen. Self-produced by the DIY-minded band and recorded direct to tape by Menashe, Data Doom ultimately took shape through countless sessions in their Southeast L.A. rehearsal space, with Frankie and the Witch Fingers allowing themselves unlimited time to explore their most magnificently strange impulses.
'Data Doom' will be released September 1, 2023
Video cut and pasted by John Mark Lapham
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Dylan Sizemore: Vocals, Guitar
Josh Menashe: Guitar, Vocals, Moog
Nikki Pickle: Bass
Nick Aguilar: Drums
Recorded to Tascam 388 by: Josh Menashe
Mixed by: Josh Menashe
Written and Produced by: Frankie and the Witch Fingers
Mastered by: Nick Townsend
Lyrics:
Say now
What’s this about
Disembodied eyes
Blown out this sound Is our
Hymnal weaponized
Onslaught
Oh lord we got violent disarray
Blown up
Blasted in the cyclical decay
Who’s a
Fascist In a dystopian maze
Fueled up flashes of a
Modded human race
You there
Ensnared by the god of wired screens
Fuels the flicker of the
Infernal machine
Death desire
Death desire
Death empire
Death desire
Depletion complete
Fixation of the material shed
Into a non-dominator society
Our cybernetic potential
Depletion complete
Fixation of the material shed
Into a non-dominator society
Abide with the overmind
It’s time we feminize

[@ML-nj4qi]

Their new drummer has taken the band to a whole new level...

[@shawnrcreighton]

True that. Dude is a phenomenal drummer.

[@stereofidelic67]

what happened to their old drummer?

[@brandobin]

​@@stereofidelic67 turned to paste, quite tragic

[@tobig.9562]

@@stereofidelic67 bizarre gardening accident :(

[@xronium]

@@stereofidelic67 turned to pro wrestling under the wwe

[@batorsiklodi944]

Haven’t found anything this good since king gizz nonagon infinity/polygondwana in the genre

[@TheBlindReaper]

NEW FRANKIE!!! 🤩🤩🤩 HELL YEAH! 🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘

[@mateocafe8786]

Most excellent.

[@LoederMusic]

Immediate banger!

[@milesp9154]

I fucking love this band

[@Retrac1406]

7/4

[@markdoell1834]

These guys are the dopeness!!!

[@richardkoi2053]

Pickle really went deep in this track. They all did honestly but that bass brings them home. Love you Frankie 🤘

[@tedfurlo2268]

Brilliantly authentic!

[@weatherman92]

12 hours after posting, and the fans are going bananas! Awesome sound.

[@soup_for_us]

THIS IS WHAT I NEEDED, I’M CALLING BILL RIGHT NOW

[@stuartculshaw5342]

Bill is going to lose his mind

[@egcowling9657]

Bill owes me $30

[@Joe-my2um]

a day before the new tour and they have this banger come out, cannot wait to see them tomorrow!!!

[@RobbyFischerMusic]

OMG who made this video!? Will you please let me know the artist or link their website?! This is absolutely amazing. It’s literally the best music video I’ve seen in the last ten years! Please let us know the artist!! Thank you!!

[@levitationaustin]

video by John Mark Lapham!

[@Bummerdrummer69]

Terry Gilliam

[@REALwoombath]

Come to Europe, goddammit!

[@Mr2tastypieces]

They're here in Europe now!

[@stuartculshaw5342]

@@Mr2tastypieces Yes! we are watching them in Liverpool on Friday. I'm absolutely fizzing

[@stuartculshaw5342]

Check the dates, go see them now.

[@REALwoombath]

Oh, that's actually great. Let me rephrase then. Come to Poland, goddammit! 😁

[@stuartculshaw5342]

@@REALwoombath Oh no. Sorry dude. If you do get the chance, dont mis them. What a gig that was.

[@leonardolopez9844]

Brutal

[@jaxonbassett666]

aint nothing mild bout this

[@andrewrobison581]

the dude abides. lets get this show on the road - temet nosce - memento mori amor. those are some curious glyphs flashing around, what do they mean?

[@lewdog9647]

It's nice I like

[@hozomeen7167]

2:31 that's dope af🔥

[@bezenhappync]

Instant classic. This band fucks.

[@ericksonherlyrodriguezorti7570]

KOOL! !!!

[@TheKeelanstuart]

Big fan! The new album, what I've heard anyway, is great... picking up some new sounds (a little like The Sword and DEVO and Talking Heads had a baby)... though (and I'm sorry about this?!) ZAM is still probably my favorite... hope to see you all in concert some day. Keep rocking!

[@maverickk714]

RMS MUSIC SOCIETY BEST SONGS OF 2023!

[@koolrockradio]

KOOL!

[@brankolocanetto5047]

WHAT A GREAT VISUAL AND AUDIO WORK

[@alexbalam6120]

Dioses ! 🔥😎

[@daletroncasablancas7870]

This is so dam good

[@brownyuio]

AWW YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH

[@jarnohokkanen5621]

this is a new world order here !

[@carlos.andrade]

Chin-gón.

[@stereofidelic67]

5/4

[@most_absurd]

Its actually 7/4 through most of the song i think, but some parts lead 3 bars of 7/4 into 8/4 measures (2:15 to around 2:35 ish) that then lead back into 7/4. There could be some bars that are 5 counts though but all i heard was 7/4 and 8/4

[@salamanderslacks6927]

🆗🆒😵‍💫

[@myonn]

Hi

[@stuartculshaw5342]

Hello

[@xronium]

Hi

[@DeeboCools]

yo