Femny have shared their new single, Next Time I’m Not Wearing Lipstick, leading up to the release of their debut EP. The ‘Instant Star’ EP will be out on January 27th, 2017 via Broken Circles. You can pre-order now. Take a listen to Next Time I’m Not Wearing Lipstick via Soundcloud below.
Opening track Candy’s Fine is reminiscent of a music fest at a public park in 1968, impromptu and ill-promoted, but nonetheless crammed with college kids donning braids and beards and Daisy Dukes who lose themselves in the swirling organ before finding themselves in the thumby bass. Singer and guitarist Tim Magrady evokes a calmer, cooler Jim Morrison, better dressed and more composed; his voice lounges against the bluesy guitar groove, but only for a couple quick verses before the song sunsets in a sweltering jam.
On Next Time I’m Not Wearing Lipstick, Isaac Soto combines Ric Ocasek’s pout and Julian Casablanca’s indifference; with its warm, swarming synth, this song summons a party at a red-walled apartment in 1984 well past its peak, a record skipping on the turntable, a pile of strangers strewn among flattened beer cans and fur coats waiting out the minutes until they pass out. Never mind that these songs were recorded in 2016; during each song on Instant Star, the listener slips into a different space, a different time, a different mind.
Other Femny songs, though, succeed because they evoke lucid, eerie moods, each familiar if only felt once during an exhausting life. Kool Aid Mix, with its airy whirr and teasing melody, conjures the weird, childish guilt associated with staying inside all summer, while the laid back layers on Vantablack Diss Track evoke the anxiety inspired by the realization that you will never be the younger version of you again—or, if not those, then other moods equally personal and specific and powerful. Still, the band counterbalances their teleportive vibes with a certain level of absurdity; even as it evokes a smooth summer dusk and all the satisfied longing contained therein, Tim and his bandmates beg Duck Jesus to save them on the EP’s final track.
‘Instant Star’ EP track listing
1. Candy’s Fine
2. Vantablack Diss Track
3. Dirt Bike Dan (ny)
4. Looking for My Head (Have You Seen It?)
5. Kool Aid Mix
6. Next Time I’m Not Wearing Lipstick
7. Duck Jesus
