Los Angeles psych-punk quartet Frankie and the Witch Fingers have dropped their new single “Empire” and its accompanying video.
The track features on their seventh studio album ‘Data Doom‘, due out on September 1 via The Reverberation Appreciation Society / Greenway Records. Pre-order your copy here.
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 Data Doom, the 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.
“Empire” kicks off the album with seven minutes of pure energy and apocalyptically intense lyrics. The Kevin Fermini-directed video perfectly captures the track’s riff-laden psychedelic mayhem.
Watch/listen below.
Upcoming Tour Dates
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 – JJ’s 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#
HELL-OWEEN DATES:
27 – Quartyard – San Diego, CA@
28 – Troubadour – Los Angeles, CA@**
29 – Rickshaw Stop (Psyched! Fest) – San Francisco, CA@
31 – Rev Hall – Portland, OR@
NOVEMBER
1 – Tractor Tavern – Seattle, WA@
3 – Catalyst Atrium – Santa Cruz, CA@
4 – SLO Brew – San Luis Obispo, CA@
# Wine Lips
~ Iguana Death Cult
** Spoon Benders
@ MONSTERWATCH
Photo Credit: James Duran
