Introducing: Silk Flowers

Name: Silk Flowers
From: New York, New York
Story: No Age bros know weird
Sound: Fuzzy, muffled, proto-electro gloom

When Dean Spunt from No Age says, of Silk Flowers, "they're probably the weirdest band I know," it's not hyperbole out to hype a record he's putting out on his own Post Present Medium label. Because Silk Flowers are a weird band.

It starts with Aviram Cohen's weird singing; an affected, self-parodying baritone moan that sounds like a stand-up comedian doing a mocking impersonation of Scott Walker. Drawing from the proto-electro dissonance of '70s pioneers Suicide or nasty early-'80s provocateurs Throbbing Gristle, the music matching Cohen's comic crooning is full of clunky, lumpen drum-machine thunk and eerie synthesizer sound.

Recorded by Fred Thomas —the longtime frontman of indie-pop outfit Saturday Looks Good to Me who, this year, reinvented himself as experimentalist with his City Center project— the album has a fuzzy, muffled, no-fidelity sound. In fact, it sounds a lot like Ariel Pink's warped, wobbly take on archaic analogue sound.

Since forming in New York last year, Silk Flowers have opened up shows for Animal Collective, Crystal Stilts, Blank Dogs, Grouper and High Places, and have toured with their label-bosses, No Age, themselves. Post Present Medium has just released Silk Flowers' debut, self-titled LP, and the band will be taking their weird music onto the road in support of such. Dates, and single "Flash of Light," below.

• Listen: Silk Flowers, "Flash of Light"

Silk Stalkings
July 18: New York, NY - Cake Shop
July 29: New York, NY - Home Sweet Home
August 1: Long Island City Queens, NY - Sculpture Center
August 15: Chicago, IL - Golden Age Records
August 15: Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
August 16: Los Angeles, CA - The Echo
August 17: San Francisco, CA - The Knockout
August 20: Portland, OR - Backspace