Like the witch from Hansel and Gretel, Joel Jasper and Zach Malbry of Forest of Tongue seem enamored with filling human orifices with cookie dough, gumdrops, Elmer’s glue, juice, figs, cotton candy, sour Skittles, McVities Digestive Crackers, sugar-coated m-80s, and pretty much anything else that causes devastating, crystalline trauma at a molecular level.
All of this shocking and sugary violence is scaled up proportionately by Jasper and Malbry’s instrumentation, which on “Dark Chocolate,” sounds a lot like Deerhoof and the Muppets band ate marzipan intestines soaked in PCP, and an hour later reduced themselves to a pile of blood, splinters of resonant wood, and polyester fur. In reality, Forest of Tongue (either a great innuendo or the nightmare where my little brother sleepwalks across the carpet whispering about a meadow of tongues licking his feet as the trees leer behind him) hooked up with J.P. Bendzinski —who’s worked with Crystal Antlers— to add some protein to their tooth-rotting, math-pop0 sound.
Their second LP is going to be titled Fancy Itch, and its been picked up by Porch Party Records #no-choruses
• Forest of Tongue: https://forestoftongue.bandcamp.com
• Porch Party Records: http://www.porchpartyrecords.com