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Wax Mekanix: Shrew’s Fiddle (Lyric Video)

Shrew’s Fiddle, the fourth single & new lyric video, taken from Wax Mekanix’s 2023 album, Psychotomimetic.

In the words of Wax Mekanix, Shrew’s Fiddle is me taking the red pill from Morpheus in The Matrix, and going down the rabbit hole. More specifically, I took it and followed John Lennon down the rabbit hole. The premise was…what if I co-wrote She Said with Lennon and Harrison for 66’s Revolver, what might that look like? That’s a large and pretentious bite that has the ingredients almost certain to inflame Beatles fans far and wide. Would I be flirting with drawing a mustache on one of rock’s “Mona Lisa”-s, or am I continuing in the folk tradition of reinterpretation and reinvigorating something worthy of that effort? I’m not sure, but life is short, so I was determined to enjoy the notion of doing it.

VIDEO CREDITS:

Video by Dante Torrieri

Wax Mekanix resurfaces in 2023 with a blisteringly heavy, trippy, kaleidoscopic, disconcerting set of songs that defy genre, and comment on the times he creates in: “Psychotomimetic”.

True to his shapeshifting reputation, it sounds as if he’s invited Black Sabbath, The Beatles, Jack White, and The Beach Boys into his recording sessions to make an album together. With a mission statement to continue his conversation with his audience, Wax has constructed sonic and thematic connective tissue joining Psychotomimetic to 2020’s Grammy balloted classic rock-infused “Mobocracy“, and then to the thunderous, tribal, groovy, organic howl of 2021’s “Blunt“.

The “Psychotomimetic” songs seem to span time and suspend it. Simultaneously, the tracks reference the familiar past, speak to the tumultuous present, and contemplate the unknown future. “I once got some advice, ‘just be yourself’. That was good advice until I thought, ‘which one?’” – Wax Mekanix, 2023

  1. Pillars Of Creation
  2. Once Upon A Lie
  3. Shrew’s Fiddle
  4. Two Left Feet
  5. Jeremy Hillary
  6. Key To The End Of The World
  7. Look At You Now

Wax Mekanix – Shrew’s Fiddle

Wax Mekanix – Look at You Now

Wax Mekanix – Once Upon a Lie

Wax Mekanix – Pillars Of Creation

Wax Mekanix – Freak Boutique

Wax Mekanix – Manchester Strawberry Blonde

Wax Mekanix – Head

Wax Mekanix – Black

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