Frankie And The Witch Fingers – “Mild Davis” [Video]

Los Angeles psych-punk quartet Frankie and the Witch Fingers have returned with their seventh studio album Data Doom, due September 1 via Greenway Records / The Reverberation Appreciation Society. 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.

“It’s very different from anything we’ve done in the past,” the band’s Dylan Sizemore said in a new interview with SPIN Magazine. “We wanted the first statement from the album to be something new and fresh.”

Though they’re currently in the midst of a massive trek across Europe, the band has also announced an extensive run of headline U.S. tour dates for this fall, which include performances at such esteemed venues as Warsaw in Brooklyn and The Troubadour in Los Angeles. See below for the full list of currently-announced dates.

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.

You can order the album HERE.

FRANKIE AND THE WITCH FINGERS
LIVE 2023

JUNE
15 – Patterns – Brighton, UK
16 – Jimmy’s – Liverpool, UK
17 – Projekts MCR Skatepark – Manchester, UK
18 – The Cluny – Manchester, UK
19 – Stereo – Glasgow, UK
20 – Hare & Hounds – Birmingham, UK
21 – Oslo – London, UK
23 – Milla Club – Munich, DE
24 – Astra – Berlin, DE
25 – L’Aéronef – Lille, FR
26 – La Source – Brussels, BE
29 – La Sirène – La Rochelle, FR

JULY
1 – Upload – Barcelona, ES
2 – Wurlitzer Ballroom – Madrid, ES
3 – Lata de Bombillas – Zaragoza, ES
5 – Petit Bain – Paris, FR
6 – Sonic – Lyon, FR
7 – Pointu Fest – Six-Fours-les-Plage, FR
12 – Relâche Fest (free show) – Bordeaux, FR
14 – Rock Im Daal Fest – Idar Oberstein, DE
15 – Valkhof Fest (free show) – Nijmegen, NL
29 – Binic Folks Blues Fest – Binic, FR

AUGUST
8 – Palp Festival – Martigny, CH
11 – Sonic Blast Fest – Vila Praia De Âncora, PT
25 – Purple City Music Fest – Edmonton, CAN

SEPTEMBER
9 – The Usual Place – Las Vegas, NV **
10 – Valley Bar – Phoenix, AZ **
11 – Love Buzz – El Paso, TX **
14 – Parish – Austin, TX **
15 – Andy’s Bar – Denton, TX **
16 – Continental Club – Houston, TX **
17 – Gasa Gasa – New Orleans, LA **
19 – JJs Bohemia – Chattanooga, TN
20 – The Blue Room – Nashville, TN #
21 – Terminal West – Atlanta, GA #
22 – Grey Eagle – Asheville, NC #
23 – Pour House – Charleston, SC #
25 – Black Cat – Washington, DC #
26 – Crystal Ballroom – Somerville, MA ~
27 – Sala Rossa – Montreal, QC ~
28 – Space Ballroom – Hamden, CT ~
29 – First Unitarian Church – Philadelphia, PA ~
30 – Warsaw – Brooklyn, NY ~

OCTOBER
2 – Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH #
3 – Bottom Lounge – Chicago, IL #
4 – Miramar Theatre – Milwaukee, WI #
6 – Hi-Dive – Denver, CO #
7 – Hi-Dive – Denver, CO #
8 – Sister Bar – Albuquerque, NM #
27 – Quartyard – San Diego, CA @
28 – Troubadour – Los Angeles, CA@ **
29 – Rickshaw Stop (Psyched! Fest) – San Francisco, CA @astrong
31 – Rev Hall – Portland, OR @

NOVEMBER
1 – Tractor Tavern – Seattle, WA @
3 – Catalyst Atrium – Santa Cruz, CA @
4 – SLO Brew – San Luis Obispo, CA @

** w/ Spoon Benders
# w/ Wine Lips
~ w/ Iguana Death Cult
@ w/ MONSTERWATCH