Ras Vinyl & CDs

Review: Frankie And The Witch Fingers lurch into new territory with Trash Classic, a warped evolution soaked in synth-punk squalor and disintegrating glamour. Unconcerned with polish, the LP thrives in corrosion, offering rickety rictuses and distortion-drenched gospel from bottom barrels. This is their most jagged, volatile work yet: buzzing with attitudinal attrition, spat-out hooks, and rhythms writhing like exposed wires neath acid rain. Made between the scorched industrial outskirts of Vernon, LA and finally shaped at Tiny Telephone Studio in Oakland with producer Maryam Qudus (La Luz, Spacemoth), this one owes its gnarled edges to both geographic grit and a willingness to unravel convention; late-night sugar binges, chaotic cartoon marathons, and freeform studio experiments fed its spastic jaunt. It's also a digital detour for the band, since their many discog-jamming catalogue adds released through Greenway Records, which otherwise trod in an increasing doom-psych direction.

Review: LA-based psych-punk band Frankie & The Witch Fingers have successfully built up their reputation as a kick-ass band with a wild, unpredictable sound, and they lean into that expectation with glee on this, their seventh studio album. Data Doom is a freewheeling ride where you might swing by the 7/4 rock n' synth-out of 'Mild Davis' or the brass-embellished blast of 'Burn Me Down'. There's space for monster riffs and smart rhythmic hooks to collide without falling into the math trap or getting too pretentious and when they want the guitar tone to really scream, it absolutely does.