Recording: New Fries

Artist: New Fries

Song: unknown^*

Recorded at The Jam Factory, May 17, 2019.

New Fries - unknown

New Fries had taken a bit of a break away from the stage, and it looks like that time was put towards some renewal and recalibration. This is a band that has pushed through inspired amateurism into accomplished technicianship and then inverted themselves, playing with both form and content on stage to defy audience expectations of how songs should be formed or sets should proceed. Currently, the group are playing as a three-piece again, swapping instruments and without keyboardist/disruptor Ryan Carley, and that seems to have tipped things back from "anti-band" to "band". Or perhaps the trio had been locked in a rehearsal space for a a few months with only an ESG comp, as the tunes here were all funky, minimalist groovers with Anni Spadafora now on bass to provide the infinite low-end chug, like a Pauline Oliveros tape loop stuck in party mode.

^* Does anyone know the title to this one? Please leave a comment!