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Oct 03, 2024 By Mark Redfern Photography by Mallory Turner

Los Angeles-based indie rock trio Cheekface surprise-released a new album, It’s Sorted, in March. Now they have shared a brand new single, “Flies,” via an amusing music video. The song features Jeff Rosenstock on baritone saxophone. The director team Baby Ponyfood made the video. Watch it below.

Vocalist/guitarist Greg Katz had this to say about the song in the press release: “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.”

Cheekface is vocalist/guitarist Greg Katz, bassist Amanda Tannen (formerly of stellastarr*), and drummer Mark “Echo” Edwards. It’s Sorted includes “The Fringe,” a new song we posted last year that was one of our Songs of the Week. When the album was released they shared a video for “Life in a Bag,” which also made our Songs of the Week list.

Cheekface’s previous album was 2022’s Too Much to Ask. It included the songs “Pledge Drive” and “We Need a Bigger Dumpster.”

Read our interview with Cheekface on It’s Sorted.

Read our review of It’s Sorted.

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