Chicago/Los Angeles-based musician Ryan Reidy proudly shares his new track “Dr Felix and His Fringe Body Parts,” the lead single from his upcoming LP Fringe Body Parts. The album will be released on November 7 through Money Pyre Records.
Listen to the track here:
Reidy explains the song:
“I had this idea of a quack doctor like Dr Nick from The Simpsons hosting a podcast where he gave out DIY at home medical advice. In this case, it’s a character named ‘Dr. Felix’ who is attempting to legitimize his advice by describing pseudo science like socio-biology. Lyrically, it wrestles with themes of the human animal in civilized society and ponders if our bodies are in crisis.”
Reidy discusses the album:
“The title Fringe Body Parts was inspired by podcasters, influencers, and any other grifter/conmen that have co-opted spaces that used to be filled with leftist/progressive/socialist leaning artists. It’s about the oppressors using the language of the oppressed to harm people. More specifically, it’s commentary on people that misrepresent their fantasies as being simultaneously part of but outside of any academic discipline. In other words, there are no fringe historians, just like there are no fringe kidneys. Musically, the record is uncivilized, ugly, feral, anguished, confused—an artistic expression of the times we are in. The cover is taken from a musical performance from my brother and I on Christmas morning 1990.”
Ryan is highly influenced by DIY and underground music scenes, in which his true foundations lie. Having performed with Ari Ari (Friction Records) and Thunders (A Squared Industries/Asthmatic Kitty) and touring alongside Margot & The Nuclear So And So’s and Male Gaze, he has made tremendous contributions to the underground scene, and his upcoming record will shape his legacy in the finest way possible.
Fringe Body Parts Track List:
1. Dr Felix And His Fringe Body Parts
2. Death of Pleasure
3. Rainbow Mountain
4. Impossible to Love
5. Obscurer
6. Performance Crimes
7. Positions
8. Greyman and Moon Girl Pt. II
9. The Scrubbed Summer of Love
10. Potion Control
11. All Berries
12. The Girls In My Home Town
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