Pick of the Week: Skin and Bones - Flashy Python

Call it fate, or destiny, or whatever you want, but if it wasn’t for being a broke college student three years ago, I never would have stumbled upon Flashy Python, the newish band from members of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Dr. Dog and The Teeth.

You see, three years ago I was broke. But I also wanted to pick up some new music so I went to the used record shop. Seeing as how I had no money, I only searched in the bargain bin. That’s when I came across The Teeth’s debut album “You’re My Lover Now.” I had never heard of the group, but I felt a connection, a mystical voice calling me that said “There are worse ways to spend $1.99.”

I went home and listened to the album. I listened to it again. And then again. I loved it. I was in love with it. I felt like Leif Ericson having just discovered new land. I was a proud adoptive mother who made friends sit with me and listen rather than look through an album of baby photos. I began checking their website, hoping they would announce a tour date close by. In April 2008, I learned that they were breaking up and I would never get to see them. I was crushed and betrayed.

Flash forward until this week. My wounds have healed and I was thinking of what music made me really happy this week. And I returned to The Teeth. As I listened to them, I was filled with music euphoria. I ran to my computer to put this piece together and when I went to The Teeth’s website, I discovered that they had teamed up to create a supergroup in Flashy Python. They hadn’t betrayed me. They were like a caterpiller who needs to hide in its cocoon so that it can come back as a butterfly and have sex with old people. 

Or they’re just talented musicians who had ended one project to work on another. Either way, I don’t care. I’m just happy to have stumbled upon another great band.

-DJ Bears!