Frankie and The Witch Fingers Announce New Album ZAM, Share New Single

Los Angeles garage-psych rockers Frankie and The Witch Fingers have announced their new album, ZAM, out on March 1 via New York City’s Greenway Records. Today (Jan. 31), they’ve also shared a new single, “Realization.”

“Realization” is the kind of super-charged garage track that requires a loss of inhibition to appreciate, but once its frantic zip finds a home in your brain, you’ll let it stay for as long as it wants. There’s an unavoidable hypnotism in its funky guitar interludes, and after its rhythm-driven sonics and meddlesome lead vocals have left the station, there’s no chance of halting or derailing the psychedelic steam train.

The band said of the track’s inspiration, “Realization is about the fleeting moments of clarity that are revealed as you begin to unravel the mundane constructs of reality, set to a Sly and The Family Stone kind of pulse.”

“Realization” hardly even scratches the surface of what ZAM has to offer. The album leans on everything from krautrock, funk and psych to prog and garage rock, ensuring an adrenaline-pumping trip no matter what. According to a press release, “its 11 tracks unleash a versatile and tenacious weight, slithering between the sexy, the aggressive, the vivacious and the disorienting—until the living invasion is felt.”

Listen to “Realization” and see Frankie and The Witch Fingers’ upcoming tour dates (and 2017 Daytrotter Session) below. Keep scrolling for their album artwork and tracklist. You can preorder ZAM on double LP here.

ZAM Album Artwork:

ZAM 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

Frankie and the Witch Fingers Tour Dates:

February
22 – Las Vegas, Nev. @ Beauty Bar
23 – Bisbee, Ariz. @ The Quarry
24 – El Paso, Texas @ Love Buzz
25 – Albuquerque, N.M. @ Sister Bar
26 – Denver, Colo. @ Hi-Dive
27 – Fort Collins, Colo. @ Surfside 7

March
01 – Sioux Falls, S.D. @ Total Drag Records
02 – Milwaukee, Wis. @ Cactus Club *
03 – Chicago, Ill. @ The Empty Bottle *
04 – Cleveland, Ohio @ Beachland Tavern *
06 – Brooklyn, N.Y. @ Knitting Factory *
07 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ Kung Fu Necktie *
08 – Washington, D.C. @ Pearl St. Live *
09 – Atlanta, Ga. @ The EARL *
10 – New Orleans, La. @ Gasa Gasa *
12-16 – Austin, Texas @ SXSW
17 – Dallas, Texas @ Not So Fun Wknd *
19 – Phoenix, Ariz. @ Yucca Tap Room *
20 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Teragram Ballroom *
21 – San Diego, Calif. @ Casbah *
23 – San Francisco, Calif. @ The Independent *

May
24 – Valencia, Spain @ Surforama Festival
29 – Paris, France @ Supersonic
30 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
31 – Opwijk, Belgium @ Nosta

June
01 – Cologne, Germany @ Sonic Ballroom
02 – Berlin, Germany @ Cassiopeia
04 – Lyon, France @ Le Farmer
05 – Lausanne, Switzerland @ Le Romandie
06 – Lugano, Switzerland @ Lido San Domenica
07 – Schaffhausen, Switzerland @ Tap Tab
08 – Sierre, Switzerland @ PALP Festival (Carnötzet)

(* with Psychedelic Porn Crumpets)