Frankie Valet are a lo-fi pop band from St Louis. They are busying preparing their debut album, out later this summer via our pals at It Takes Time Records, and in anticipation have released the first single, ‘Why blue / Something to do with a mouth’.
‘Why Blue’ is a great introduction, part sweet throwback pop, part shoegazy indie rock, with an uncanny habit of finding tempo and melody when you least expect it. Just as things seem to settle into a somnambulant shuffle, driving drums kick in and the song rides a little eddy of energy to somewhere entirely new. The chorus, when it comes, feels beamed from the surfy 60s, group vocals repeating the line “why do these colours make me blue?”
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Follow-up ‘something to do with a mouth’ swaps vocalists but retains the same spirit, like a purply-pink orb that morphs and melds across the four and half minute run-time, constantly shifting in perfectly fluid pop perfection.
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Both tracks are great, and we’re super excited for the full album, more on which soon. For now head to the Frankie Valet Bandcamp page to get this single.