Freak Accident, The

Freak Accident, The

The Midnight Show

Nerve Center Recordings

***The fifth album by The Freak Accident, The Midnight Show, expands the known universe of what the SF band is capable of. The heavy parts are heavier, the punk parts are punkier, the noise is noisier and the improv parts are improvier; while somehow simultaneously creating the catchiest Freak Accident album to date. Ralph Spight (Victims Family, Guantanamo School of Medicine - vocals/ guitar), Henry Austin Lannan (bass/ vocals), and Stark Raving Brad (drums/ vocals) have coalesced into a band that can & does go in whatever direction they please. The album kicks off with the tongue-in-cheek indie rock of "Don't Blame Me"—"sort of the point at which the lineup of The Freak Accident became a band, slogging through all the humiliations that only people who are music lifers can relate to", as Spight explains. This sets the stage for a wild ride: the synth-tinged melodic punk of "Fairytales", some dark garage-surf on "Busted Time Machine", some extended undersea sonic adventuring on "Gill Transplant", the pop-song-turned-noise-jam of "I'll Be Your Toilet" & the dissonant swing of "Down in The Dumps." "Fairytales" itself, as Spight notes, "is an exploration of the Hallmark-card images of Christianity... Musically, I just wanted it to be a straight ahead rocker with extra synth noises. And to take it over the top, why not add a drum solo? A drum solo, who does that?" The Freak Accident had an inside joke about having to play last at every show, which formed the basis of the lyrics...

Freak Accident, The

Misfortune Teller

Nerve Center Recordings

***The Freak Accident is a Punk / Math / Garage / Pop / Surf / Rock collision led by Victims Family /Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine guitarist-vocalist Ralph Spight. The Misfortune Teller album finds the line-up of Abel Mouton and Eric Strand (Victims Family, Hellbender, Engage) delivering an ever changing array of lysergic thunder anthems with a lyrical perspective that abandons all hope for the future.

Freak Accident, The

Octopus Head

Nerve Center Recordings

***Lost recordings of the Freak Accident from 2009 featuring the superstar line-up of Kimo Ball (Jello Biafra and the GSM) on bass and Big Mike Branum (Capitol Punishment, Hanson Brothers) on drums along with your host Ralph Spight on guitar and vocals. After resuscitating a seemingly dead hard drive after many years, this 4 song, 22-minute magnum opus finally saw the light of day in 2022, when the world could finally hear “Almost Alive”, a laundry list of modern life simulations of real-experiences and “Oxygen Tent” the lost surf power-pop hit of the mid-aughts. If that isn’t enough to convince you, 12 minutes of “Irony Man” will make you a believer.

Freak Accident, The

Outer Space Is Boring

Nerve Center Recordings

***The sixth release from The Freak Accident Outer Space Is Boring has arrived. The album finds guitarist-vocalist Ralph Spight (Victims Family, Jello Biafra and the GSM) and a new line-up of Henry Austin Lannan (Mongoloid, Atomic Tide) on bass and drummer Stark Raving Brad (Hellbillies, Antler Family, Marginal Prophets, many others) riding through Psychedelic Punk, Power Pop, Sludge Core, weird time signatures, butt rock, Caribbean improv and any other textures they can get their slimy little mitts on as a foundation for Ralph's wry insights on Space, Consumerism, Loyalty, Post-Truth America and the light and darkness in us all. This cheery little slab will have you humming its caustic little earworms all the way to the fallout shelter. Enjoy while you can.