Frankie And The Witch Fingers / Zam
| Album: | Zam | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Frankie And The Witch Fingers | Added: | Mar 2019 | |
| Label: | Greenway Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2019-03-19 | Pull Date: | 2019-05-21 |
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| Week Ending: | May 26 | May 19 | May 12 | May 5 | Apr 28 | Apr 21 | Apr 14 | Mar 31 |
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| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 02, 2024: | The Vinyl Frontier
Pleasure |
4. | Jul 15, 2021: | The Library (rebroadcast from Apr 10, 2019)
Cobwebs |
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| 2. | Jan 18, 2024: | down in the basement
Work |
5. | Jun 30, 2021: | The Library (rebroadcast from Apr 10, 2019)
Cobwebs |
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| 3. | Oct 18, 2022: | Alien Hour
Zam |
6. | Oct 02, 2019: | The Fuzz Deli
Dracula Drug |
Album Review
Telepathic Juan
Reviewed 2019-03-20
Reviewed 2019-03-20
ZAM is the fifth album by Los Angeles, California psych rock band Frankie & The Witch Fingers. Imagine an early pre-prog-jazz version of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard getting signed to Castle Face records and being produced by Ty Segall on a meek budget and two days to record. The result is energetic, loud, and layered with guitar sounds everywhere from start to finish. Psych rock 101 here. One of my favorites of 2019.
RIYL: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, (Thee) Oh Sees, The Young Sinclairs, Ty Segall and Triptides.
FCC CLEAN!
Recommended Tracks: 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11
1. (8:50) Dracula Drug – Slow/Medium-up tempo. Starts quiet then by minute 2:14, takes off. California Psychedelia Part 1.
2. (4:12) **Work – Medium-up tempo. Loud vocals/guitars. Punk energy here.
3. (4:40) Realization – Medium-up tempo. Kinda a la 1970s fuzzy rock.
4. (3:52) *Pleasure – Medium-up tempo. Think current Oh Sees with more vocals and more trippy effects.
5. (8:27) ****ZAM – Holy cow!! Fast and non-stop, imaginative and dense as you can get. One of the best instrumental cuts I have heard in years.
6. (4:22) ***Cobwebs – Slow/medium-up tempo. Part 1970s fuzz rock, part current psych rock. Oh Sees meets The Dug Dugs.
7. (4:46) **Dark Sorcerer – Medium-up tempo. Psych rock punker. Retro melody. Great energy.
8. (4:44) Purple Velvet – Medium-up tempo. Part 1960s garage, part 1970s fuzz rock. Melodic.
9. (1:07) I Am – Medium/Medium-up tempo. Part 1970’s blues rock, part current psych rock. Short and to the point.
10. (9:29) ***Underneath You – Another impressive cut here. Fast, intense and trippy. Yeah.
11. (5:43) *Head Collector – Slow/medium tempo. Totally 1970s rock vibe. Think Pink Floyd meet The Kinks. Feels right.
12. (4:40) Realization (Demo) – Medium-up tempo. Brute but close to the original.
13. (4:44) Purple Velvet (Demo) – Medium-up tempo. Raw but close to the source.
RIYL: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, (Thee) Oh Sees, The Young Sinclairs, Ty Segall and Triptides.
FCC CLEAN!
Recommended Tracks: 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11
1. (8:50) Dracula Drug – Slow/Medium-up tempo. Starts quiet then by minute 2:14, takes off. California Psychedelia Part 1.
2. (4:12) **Work – Medium-up tempo. Loud vocals/guitars. Punk energy here.
3. (4:40) Realization – Medium-up tempo. Kinda a la 1970s fuzzy rock.
4. (3:52) *Pleasure – Medium-up tempo. Think current Oh Sees with more vocals and more trippy effects.
5. (8:27) ****ZAM – Holy cow!! Fast and non-stop, imaginative and dense as you can get. One of the best instrumental cuts I have heard in years.
6. (4:22) ***Cobwebs – Slow/medium-up tempo. Part 1970s fuzz rock, part current psych rock. Oh Sees meets The Dug Dugs.
7. (4:46) **Dark Sorcerer – Medium-up tempo. Psych rock punker. Retro melody. Great energy.
8. (4:44) Purple Velvet – Medium-up tempo. Part 1960s garage, part 1970s fuzz rock. Melodic.
9. (1:07) I Am – Medium/Medium-up tempo. Part 1970’s blues rock, part current psych rock. Short and to the point.
10. (9:29) ***Underneath You – Another impressive cut here. Fast, intense and trippy. Yeah.
11. (5:43) *Head Collector – Slow/medium tempo. Totally 1970s rock vibe. Think Pink Floyd meet The Kinks. Feels right.
12. (4:40) Realization (Demo) – Medium-up tempo. Brute but close to the original.
13. (4:44) Purple Velvet (Demo) – Medium-up tempo. Raw but close to the source.
Track Listing
| 1. | Dracula Drug | 7. | Dark Sorceror | |||
| 2. | Work | 8. | Purple Velvet | |||
| 3. | Realization | 9. | I Am | |||
| 4. | Pleasure | 10. | Underneath You | |||
| 5. | Zam | 11. | Realization (Demo) | |||
| 6. | Cobwebs | 12. | Purple Velvet (Demo) |