Feeling Figures

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

At the core of Feeling Figures, the Zakary Slax and Kay Moon songwriting partnership is still intent on wrangling visions from the air, a pursuit since their fateful encounter on the Atlantic coast a decade or so ago. After relocating to Montreal, the pair produced a handful of self-released tapes, collaborated with a rotating cast of merrymakers and contributed to a variety of local projects. Around the time the world shut down, their collective vehicle was reimagined as Feeling Figures, powered by the vaunted rhythm section of Joe C. & Thomas M. Celluloid Lunch released their self-titled debut 7” in 2021. Feeling Figures first full-length ‘Migration Magic’ was co-released by K Records/Perennial in November 2023; a spontaneous syntheses of guitar pop, scrappy punk, folk, psychedelia, and garage rock.

Recorded in the basement by Thomas and mixed to 1/2” tape by the band in Montreal.

800 vinyl copies.

‘Everything Around You’ is not this generation’s first ramshackle-as-fuckk art punk album and I’m not sure it’s even the 30 thousandth. But I do know Feeling Figures have arrived fully formed, with a real voice of their own (several in fact, that must be a really good microphone). This album is simply too much fun to have been the product of years of serious study, though I’m told students occasionally have fun, too. I wouldn’t know, i’m a university drop out. I did once see an episode of the television adaptation of “The Paper Chase” where one of the new Harvard Law hopefuls had a Kiss poster over his bed and that seemed highly implausible. 

The utter lack of affectation on ‘Everything Around You’ may or may not be considered a selling point (affectation seems pretty huge — almost always) but Feeling Figures’ rock’n’roll atom smashery is nothing short of astonishing. Maybe there will be a better record [this year] — perhaps two or three, even.  But for now, this is the band to beat.”  – Gerard Cosloy