Flat Worms Announce Witness Marks Album

Flat Worms photo by Owen Schmit

Flat Worms’ will release their new full-length album, Witness Marks, via Ty Segall’s Drag City imprint GOD?, with their first single, “Time Warp In Exile” today. The band’s first single, and new record, still has hints of the garage-punk of their past work but looks to 80s hardcore, as well as contemporaries like Viagra Boys, Fontaines D.C., and Parquet Courts. The band are looking inward this time, outlining personal space in relation to themselves and others – sometimes, even people they barely know.

Flat Worms, include lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist Will Ivy, drummer Justin Sullivan (Kevin Morby) and bassist Tim Hellman (OSEES) have navigated through the depths of their personal hardships in the four years since the band released Antarctica in early 2020. The democracy of working together, so often messy and frustrating, was found to be a powerful release for the trio. Acting as one, Flat Worms navigated their personal burdens by coming together, finding release in the clockwork repetitions of practice and the shared creative space they occupied together against the encroaching world.

Speaking to “Time Warp In Exile”, Will Ivy writes, “Given the opportunity to live in harmony, human nature takes over to corrupt. Jealousy and greed cannot be tamed; the relatable fate of Cain and Abel.”

Flat Worms
Witness Marks
Tracklist
GOD?

1. Sigalert
2. SSRT
3. Time Warp In Exile
4. Suburban Swans
5. Orions Belt
6. Gotta Know
7. Sick Of My Face
8. 16 Days
9. Wolves In Phase
10. See You At The Show
11. Witness Marks

Flat Worms 2023 Tour Dates

October 6th – Los Angeles, CA @ Permanent Records Roadhouse – Album Release Show
October 10th – Berlin, DE @ Lido
October 12th – Brighton, UK @ Green door store
October 13th – Nottingham, UK @ Boat club
October 14th – London, UK @ Oslo (hackney)
October 16th – Birmingham, UK @ Hare & Hounds
October 17th – Dunkerque, FR @ les 4 écluses
October 18th – Paris, FR @ point éphémère
October 19th – Saint Malo, FR @ la nouvelle vague
October 20th – La roche sur yon, FR @ Quai M
October 21st – Orléans, FR @ l’Astrolab
November 9th – Los Angeles, CA @ Globe Theater (Substance Festival)