Wallfly’s album Somethings has been out since April 2018 but its’ single “Bad Habits” recently came to our attention which was welcome for such an unusual and sonically challenging rock song. You never have time to get to used to a sound or a dynamic across the song so calling it “Bad Habits” is genius. Like the band or its members spent some time making music that got stuck in a rut or conforming to some style that bored them. Like when young musicians in recent years think they discovered something new and exciting with the fifth or seventh wave of garage rock or psychedelia like so many do thinking it’s adequate to sound like “Anemone” by The Brian Jonestown Massacre and that simple reverb works to be trippy because delays are for pretentious “art” bands. Wallfly seems to disregard these considerations completely. Somewhere someone cited Deerhoof as a comparison or an influence which seems apt as that’s another band that doesn’t really sound like anyone else unless someone could be said to sound like Melt Banana collided with Alice Donut and Brainiac. The fact is that this song that melds together electronic sounds with rock sounds and an avant-garde sampling aesthetic while creating a song that at its heart speaks to and articulates a desire not to be hemmed in even by one’s own internal task master. If Guerilla Toss is touring through the band’s hometown of Provo, Utah, throw these people on the bill just for weirdo solidarity’s sake. Listen to the song on Spotify and follow Wallfly at the links below.
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