We’re pleased to bring you the premiere of Will Wood and the Tapeworms’ new album Self-ish, which will be officially released tomorrow, August 23rd. Purchase Self-ish here.

Self-ish includes guest appearances by Alex Nauth (of Foxy Shazam, The Skulx), as well as Matt Olsson (of Frnkiero and the Cellabration) playing drums on the entirety of the record. The album was produced by Kevin Antreassian of Backroom Studios.

The band comments on the album:

“The conditions of time and space squeezed this album out of me like the last scraps of dried winterfresh out of a curling tube of toothpaste. The end result is a screaming c-section mutant that’s allergic to water and has skin made of fingernails like a harlequin icthyosis child with enough chromosomes to colonize Venus. It is a caricature of me that seems both shamefully personal and entirely alien. It’s my most introspective work, yet also my most delusional. ‘Self-ish’ scares the living shit out of me.”

You can also check out the band’s music video for “Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity: Tulpamancer’s Prosopagnosia/Pareidolia (As Direct Result of Trauma to the Fusiform Gyrus)” below. Will Wood takes the reigns alongside MTV and VH1 international action-filmmaker Adam Nawrot to take his audience on a visual carnival ride, chalk-full of demented swing-punk riffs and anti-folk hysteria throughout.

The title, “Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity: Tulpamancer’s Prosopagnosia as Direct Result of Trauma to the Fusiform Gyrus,” may be a mouthful, but the video itself is an eyeful. Will Wood and the Tapeworms monochromatically bare all, floating in a white room that could be anything from the void to the vanity shot. Body paint, confetti, money, beads, art-house nudity, and Will Wood’s signature psychedelic goth-drag dare you to keep watching and listening, and will leave you utterly baffled, furiously googling “who is Mr. Capgras?”

Will Wood and the Tapeworms

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