America’s local band Cheekface surprised fans with a biting, darkly funny beachy indie pop bop, “Flies.” Previously, the L.A.-based trio released It’s Sorted in January 2024 featuring 10 dazzling tracks.
Here, you may even feel as if you’re at a ska show. Jeff Rosenstock added a bit of his own flair with a baritone sax cameo.
Vocalist and guitarist Greg Katz shared, “This song is about living the dream in a room full of flies. Me and [bassist Amanda] Mandy [Tannen] wrote this song in our practice space a few months ago, but the title lyric was literally written in a room full of flies. Unfortunately, the lyric about not being able to do a kickflip is also literally true.”
Check out the goofy music video below featuring, of course, big flies.
Additionally, Cheekface has all of their previous albums on their merch site available for vinyl pre-order, and they will ship around November 29. You can check out all of their current merch here.
“Flies” Lyrics:
The market is flooded with people like me
In a passenger van, with a pine-scented tree
Who cannot do a kickflip
And are not on TV
And who aren’t really vegan or cruelty free
Now nature is scenic, the views are serene
Now nature is dusty and rumors are true
And we love dust because it is so cool
So of course we can’t wait to be it
(Dust I mean, not cool)
We are living the dream in a room full of flies
And we look out of place in a space out of time
There’s a buzz in our heads and the insects replied
“We were doing a bit for our whole frickin’ life”
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We are living the dream in a room full of flies
But now we have to leave cause they gave us the light
There is chocolate and cheese, there are too many guys
We are living the dream in a room full of flies
The market is flooded with people like me
And our value is plummeting, now we’re worthless and free
The poem’s out of order
The colors start to bleed
The money isn’t vegan or cruelty free
The market is flooded with people like me
Who sacrificed our common sense for grudges of no consequence
Who walked out of the library with two copies of Meat
Then we posted on IG and shoplifted in solidarity
We are living the dream in a room full of flies
And we look out of place in a space out of time
There’s a buzz in our heads and the insects replied
“We were doing a bit for our whole frickin’ life”
We are living the dream in a room full of flies
But now we have to leave cause they gave us the light
There is chocolate and cheese, there are too many guys
We are living the dream in a room full of flies
What do you think? What do you think?
