(2019) Frankie and the Witch Fingers - ZAM





Review:

Frankie and the Witch Fingers’ latest LP, ZAM, bleeds beyond borders and boundaries. Its openingpreternatural sounds bubble up out of the primordial soup, spilling into our world, invading the

inner recesses of the listener’s mind. Like a two-headed snake wrapped around the skull, the album pendulates between winding instrumentals and dancey riffs that pop like supernovas out of the black

void. Just when a song goes one way, it propels another through long stretches of a cosmic inferno.

Bringing glimmers of krautrock and funk, its eleven tracks unleash a versatile and tenacious

weight, slithering between the sexy, the aggressive, the vivacious, and the disorienting-until the

living invasion is felt-ZAM-a supernatural entity summoned by four madmen obsessed with tearing

open a gateway to dark space. After being pulled apart atom-by-atom, the listener is reconfigured

on the other side, born unto starry wasteland. Where head is separated from body. Where music is

seen and apocalyptic soundscapes flow to revelation. A funhouse undercurrent pulses through the

album’s epoch, reflecting a carnival mosaic shrewdly lulling and doggedly brutal. As one track bleeds into the next, that hour of running time becomes wormhole travel, until the listener returns

earthbound, transmuted, craving more odyssey.











Tracklist:

01. Dracula Drug

02. Work

03. Realization

04. Pleasure

05. ZAM

06. Cobwebs

07. Dark Sorcerer

08. Purple Velvet

09. I Am

10. Underneath You

11. Head Collector





Summary:

Country: USA

Genre: garage, psychedelic rock





Media Report:

Source                           : CD

Format                           : FLAC

Format/Info                      : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM

Bit rate mode                    : Variable

Bit rate                         : ~ 900-1000 Kbps

Channel(s)                       : 2 channels

Sampling rate                    : 44.1 KHz

Bit depth                        : 16 bits