Strawberry Fuzz Announce New LP, Share "Dropout" Single via CHORUS.FM | 'Strongs Dr.' LP Out Now via CandyShop Recordings

Strawberry Fuzz Announce New LP, Share "Dropout" Single via CHORUS.FM Read the Buzzbands.LA, Psychedelic Baby, Austin Town Hall, Northern Transmissions, Backseat Mafia, Rock and Roll Globe, The Punksite, and Thoughts Words Action Features Strongs Dr. LP Out Now via CandyShop Recordings Photo by Derek Perlman

LISTEN & SHARE: Strawberry Fuzz - Strongs Dr. LP Spotify / Apple Music LISTEN & SHARE: Strawberry Fuzz - "Dropout" Spotify / Apple Music LISTEN & SHARE: Strawberry Fuzz - Wasting My Time 3-Track Teaser Spotify / Apple Music "'Wasting My Time' may be simple, but it’s impeccably produced, and it sounds like the work of a band completely in their element. If you’re a fan of FIDLAR, surf punk, or straight up visceral guitar tones, then Strawberry Fuzz is right up your alley." - Consequence of Sound "Wasting My Time is the sound of punk without boundaries of any kind [...] Unapologetic with their hardcore approach, the three drops are Strawberry Fuzz’s strongest statements to date, about their influence: the local surf-punk scene, the unforgiving riffs of Modern Lovers, and the aggressive attitudes of Black Flag all interlaced into one commanding sonic assault." - Unpublished Zine "‘Wasting My Time’ is a gritty and antsy continuation of the band’s alt-rock sound. After capturing their live sound on a collection of demos, [it's] is a track that sets their chaotic sound in stone." - Dead Good Music "Strawberry Fuzz make rock ’em-sock ’em music in the vein of first-wave punk-rockers and fellow miscreants such as FIDLAR, their heavy riffs coated in sheets of distortion and varying degrees of menace and disdain [...] Whatever your geographical leaning, the trio of songs packs a punch" - Buzzbands.LA "A superbly energetic and slightly manic track that has attitude and complimentary expletives that make me think it is worth a trip [to Venice]. If they give half the energy in their live performances as they do in their recorded stuff, I'm looking for my passport." - Green Banana This past fall, Strawberry Fuzz presented Wasting My Time, a 3-song teaser produced by guitarist Alex Arias and the band themselves. Building on the reaction to 2021’s collection of raw demos, Fuzztapes Vol.1, the teaser found the band documenting their experience in the dirty underside of LA life, from sniping at the scene kids on the eastside of LA to calling out the elites of the Westside beach cities - as well as critiquing surf conditions. Consequence of Sound wrote about the title track, calling it "the work of a band completely in their element." Now, Strawberry Fuzz returns with the follow-up to that teaser, a full-length LP entitled Strongs Dr., out now via CandyShop Recordings. Featuring the three songs on that initial teaser, previously released singles ("No Lighter," "Talk," and "Sugar"), and more new tracks, Strongs Dr. is a continuation of the Cali surf-punk exhibited on their past releases, but with even more bite. Last night, the band additionally kicked off the album with sold out show at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. As vocalist Colby Rodgers writes on their new release, "The album is a blend of all the people I grew up with in LA. Stoners, pill heads, downers, uppers, straight kids — it’s pretty much all in there. We named the album Strongs Dr. after the street our buddy Chris lives on in Venice. We spent a lot of long nights at his place during the making of the album. He also co-wrote and sings on the last voice memo recorded track with me. Shoutout Chris and the entire westside crew." Drummer Andy Warren continues,  "Some of the best nights making the album were just sitting around Alex's studio trying to come up with lyrics or tracking little bits and pieces. We’d pass around a bottle of Jameson, sitting in a cloud of cig smoke, sometimes til the sun would rise. This album captures the energy of our live show in a way that our other releases haven’t. The sounds are way bigger. It’s hard to bottle up the vibe of the live performance, but we found rad ways to figure that out. For 'Wasting My Time' and 'Corner Store' we applied different techniques, like recording the guitar, bass and drums all at the same time to try and bottle that energy up between us." Guitarist Kris Miller adds, "I wanted to punch myself in the face multiple times during the recording of this record. I’m glad we’re done." In addition to sharing the full-length record, today, the band shines a spotlight on its focus track, "Dropout." As Rodgers describes of the track's origins: "In high school, it was casual to see kids taking pills in the bathroom. South LA is a nice beach community but a lot of kids were getting into heavy shit fast. Luckily, I was a stoner back then so, I didn’t get caught up in the oxy." Stay tuned for more from Strawberry Fuzz, coming soon. STRAWBERRY FUZZ LINKS Website | Instagram | YouTube | Soundcloud | Spotify | Apple Music