TheFleok and the filmic folk rock / psychedelic fusions of "pennies" (Official Video)

 

"I placed a pair of pennies on your eyelids / Cool and light, you asked if they were diamonds / And in that same sentence, I built for you, a chandelier / Sweet, the lightest blue..."

The filmic folk rock / psychedelic fusions of "pennies" by TheFleok (the New York City based musical collective surrounding the songs of singer-songwriter Leo Jergovic) feels so utterly alive and quite literally timeless due to it's sort of homespun nature, punch and power. It could as easily be found footage from the late 70's (feel a kind of earnest jam band approach of bands like The Band or Traffic) as it could be brand new and this lends to it's forever aesthetic. I love the twangy things happening, the drum sound and drumming highlighting the grand gestures, the punchy downbeats, blistering honky tonk-esqe piano ascensions and Jergovic's blend of endearing spoken word and singing. 

This very dreamy, inviting, porch blues indie rock extravaganza is the title track from TheFleok's new album "pennies"- and Jergovic shares this:

"The poem in this song is a metaphorical funeral, for negative emotions contained in the album, for escapist ideas, for moments of heartbreak. It provides a reminder that even in our darkest moments, we are always, really loved."

AND ABOUT THE ALBUM - Jergovic expounds (excerpted from TheFleok website):

[I wrote these songs more than a year ago, and have been listening to them—the redone studio takes, the voice memos, the non-included tracks—nonstop for that year and change. As I’ve talked about that period of songwriting over the course of the rollout—in shows, interviews, and facetime calls with my mom—I’ve primarily danced around three ideas: the vignettes, the live shows, and the ending.

I’m not going to do the Tarantino thing and start with the ending, so…

Vignettes. I feel quite strongly that these are the simplest songs I’ve ever written. The hooks tend to be a few words, and they relay the cyclical nature of the emotions. In the simplicity, I have tried to nurture relatability; we’ve all been not invited, we’ve all needed love, we’ve all wanted someone to walk us home. The messages are so simple because I don’t want to sing them alone.

Live shows are the guiding force of this album. My goal is that a passerby—who’s never heard my voice, who’s never seen the band—can sing along and scream by the end of each song. Hence, the repetition, the simplicity, the youthful energy…

In fact, most of the songs—at least the way you hear them in your headphones—were born in our shows; baby i need you is a epilogue jam we came up with based on a guitar riff Gui Matos played over the chords of need your love. The studio recording of fuck your show, alternate cut is a retake from a song on our first EP, wrong page, based on how we play the song live. The songs continue to be ever-evolving entities—no part of our most recent set replicates these exact takes. In a way, it becomes quite impossible to reach any kind of conclusion…

The ending—the last minute and 28 seconds of pennies—might feel a bit incongruous with the rest. I’ll admit, on the record, that a person screaming “I really love you” seems a bit odd in the context of a somewhat cynical, escapist album laid to an alternative rock.

Perhaps though, I mean to say that in our cyclical vignettes, in our moments of simple and universal darkness, we often overlook the vectors of love pointed in our direction. And as I performed the shows, recorded the album, and wrote the poem—wrote the poem about some pennies in some book on some plane—those vectors of love were all I could hear.]

LYRICS

I placed a pair of pennies on your eyelids
Cool and light, you asked if they were diamonds
And in that same sentence, I built for you, a chandelier
Sweet, the lightest blue
You to me
Fear and punishment were effusive from the strums of you
But my softness, and my sincerity, now fleeting too
I threw those pennies in a park trash can
And the breath of your voice in the fields of Cairo

I really love you
I really love you
Oh I'm telling you, I really love you
I really love you
Oh I promise, I really love you
And I shall always, always, really love you
I will, I will really love you
Honey I really love you

I hope you swim in this song and check out the album like I will be doing over time. 

-Robb Donker Curtius

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6Ua8ce5fNbUS8VCL2yNuX0

https://www.instagram.com/thefleok/

https://www.thefleok.com/


TheFleok is a musical collective by Leo Jergovic, based in New York City. Recording and performing songs written by Jergovic, the music captures romantic endeavors in the big city through influences of Alternative and Punk Rock.

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