

Los Angeles feminist art-punk band French Vanilla are set to release their full-length self-titled album March 24 on Danger Collective Records. The nine vigorous tracks regulate the dance floor with socially sensitive lyrics, vocal freneticism, punchy basslines, and catchy sax. Delivering performances filled with infectious energy and enthusiasm, the band has shared stages with Girlpool, Screaming Females, Tacocat, Genesis P-Orridge and Cherry Glazerr.
The band previously shared the socially conscious single “Anti-Aging Global Warming” and today the reveal new album cut “Social Trappings” spurred by percussive, commanding vocal melodies. Ali Day shares, “The song is about having a toxic attraction to someone and then later realizing that person is nothing like you imagined. It's about being liberated from that pull and not letting someone else determine your value."
“Social Trappings” was revealed by Ghettoblaster Magazine today and is available HERE.
French Vanilla is made up of Max Albeck (drums), Ali Day (guitar/bass), Sally Spitz (vocals), and Daniel Trautfield (bass/sax). Half-driven by a desire to challenge the established SoCal music scene, dominated by a few influential (male) tastemakers, and half by a desire to hang out with friends, FV started in LA’s queer punk underground and it is in these spaces that they feel the most at home.
photo credit: Adam Sandor Nagy
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