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Today Flesh World graciously share a full stream of their upcoming album, The Wild Animals In My Life which debuted on A.V. Club. LISTEN BELOW:

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Flesh World began with Scott Moore (Limp Wrist) and Jess Scott (Brilliant Colors), in a microscopic lofted-bedroom in San Francisco’s Panhandle district. Scott and Jess merged their respective musical histories of hardcore and pop sort of on accident. Actually without any mention of their previous bands, they bonded over the films of Kenneth Anger, the guitar work of Lou Reed and William Reid, the writing of Jean Genet, and the shirtless figures of David Hockney paintings.

The pair slowly built songs in between hanging out at drag bars and punk shows, watching SF decay into some sort of inverted Detroit, isolated wealth which sent a lot of young artists running in the last couple of years. Flesh World is sort of what’s left of that, where the only places to have fun are still leather bars, house music clubs, basement punk shows. After the music and vision of Scott and Jess began to coagulate they brought in Diane Anastasio also of Brilliant Colors to complete their basic and primitive sound.

Flesh World Live Dates:

May 28: The Knockout – San Francisco, CA
June 20: El Rio – San Francisco, CA (LP Release Show)
June 26: Blackwater – Portland, OR
June 27: Groundzero – Seattle, WA
July 30: Baby’s All Right – New York, NY
July 31: PhilaMoca – Philadelphia, PA*
August 1: Music Hall of Williamsburg – Brooklyn, NY #
August 2: Windup Space – Baltimore, MD
August 3: Strange Matter – Richmond, VA
August 4: Black Cat – Washington D.C.

* – w/ Radioactivity
# – w/ Total Control, Lust For Youth, Sannhet

Much of the album’s production, engineering, percussion and synth saw collaboration with Toronto photographer/legend, Don Pyle (Iggy Pop, Peaches). Pyle contributed enthusiastic efforts to The Wild Animals In My Life and the band considers this early member of first wave Toronto punk, electronic music, etc. to be a component to the sound of Flesh World overall.