Ryan Reidy Drops ‘Dr. Felix’ Single, Announces Fringe Body Parts Album
Chicago/Los Angeles based musician Ryan Reidy today has announced new LP ‘Fringe Body Parts,’ due out November 7th. To accompany the announcement, he’s shared the fuzzed out, catchy lead single ‘Dr. Felix And His Fringe Body Parts.’
“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,” Reidy explains. “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.”
The new album from Reidy is noisy, unhinged, and guitar-forward, yet it still maintains a strong pop sensibility–with soaring melodies filtered through a blood-pumping wall of sound, the 12 track LP is a magnificent take on art rock through a Midwestern DIY lens.
Ryan Reidy’s roots run deep in the DIY and underground music scenes, previously playing in acts such as Ari Ari (Friction Records), Thunders (A Squared Industries/Asthmatic Kitty), and has been a touring musician for Margot & The Nuclear So And So’s and Male Gaze. The new album from Reidy is a noisy, unhinged blend of punk, noise rock, art rock, and garage rock.
“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.”
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