Flummox’s upcoming LP finds its emotional heart in a sure type of regional pleasure. However as singer/bassist Alyson Blake Dellinger notes, it’s not some “South-will-rise-again Accomplice shit.” Dellinger was impressed by “Tennessee Three” state legislator Justin Jones and one thing he stated throughout a 2023 gun-control protest he led on the Home flooring: “The South will rise anew.”
Claiming as its mascot the mighty opossum, the genre-fluid, prog-thrash quintet is a heavy-sounding band with some fairly hefty anti-establishment aspirations for Southern Progress, obtainable April 11 on the Needlejuice imprint. The band’s third album was recorded by Jason Dietz (Amigo The Satan, Hank Williams III) at Nashville’s Twin Oak Studios, with vocals and overdubs added at Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner’s dwelling studio close to town.
Flummox’s against-the-grain philosophy apart, Dellinger thinks “Siren Shock” could also be one of the accessible songs the band has ever performed.
“Initially, we referred to as it ‘Pleasure Shock,’ and it was simply gonna be a type of sleazy, queer intercourse music. A few of that factor continues to be current within the completed music, however it’s now not the general theme,” says Dellinger, who identifies as a “they/she/it shape-shifting trans femme-boy/lady anomaly who kisses ladies (largely).” “After experiencing a less-than-stellar relationship throughout the time we have been making these songs, I went again and rewrote the lyrics as extra about being trapped in that state of affairs and ultimately clawing my means out in triumph. Musically, it’s principally our model of an previous rock ’n’ roll music. It’s bought a variety of old-school Deep Purple vitality, for my part.”
The video for “Siren Shock” was recorded at a Murfreesboro, Tenn., staple, GO USA Enjoyable Park. “We didn’t have an excessive amount of planning going into the shoot outdoors of the concept of filming ourselves having enjoyable at an amusement park,” says Dellinger. “Camden Perez—who shot and edited the video—got here up with the concept of making an attempt to win the opossum puppet, and that was principally the unfastened plot we clung to from there.”
We’re proud to premiere Flummox’s “Siren Shock” video.
—Hobart Rowland
