Farmer's Wife

One Liner:  Really tasty buzz bin offerings with a hint of shoegaze

Wikipedia Genre:  No Wikipedia, but shoegaze, alternative, grungy psych crunch

Home: Austin!

Poster Position: Bottom Quarter - Line 25
Weekend Two Only.
Friday.

Thoughts: I just broke out laughing at my desk - the top song on their Spotify is called "Greg Abbott's Maxi Pad."  A surf-tinged, punky little nugget of alternative rock talking shit to the Governor.  I've been jamming this all day and I am a fan.  Bottom band on the day's list, and yet it is some crunchy rock that is keeping me entertained.  With a hint of shoegazey meander here and there as well.  I like it.

Their bio says that they combine the best of early records from Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, Jane's Addiction, and Slowdive.  Tool terrified me when it first came out, but otherwise that is a pretty solid Venn diagram surrounding me at 15.  No albums, just 2023 EP There's a Monster and then 2025's EP Faint Illusions, as well as singles such as the aforementioned 2022 single that made me giggle.  1.3 million streams for the attack on Abbott's sorry ass.

Two things.  One, that song jams a little bit.  Two, that video kind of rules (I guess that is AI and not a really good Greg Abbott mask?).  Two (and a half), that song is attributed to Sludge, not Farmer's Wife.  I wonder if they got invited to get a new name because someone already had that one?  Second biggest streamer is "Shoe Goo" with 232k streams, which appears on the 2023 EP.

Like if The Sundays were ominous and a little scary.  I feel like you also need to get one of the newest songs too, just for a more complete picture of what you have here in this band.  This one is "Mildew" with 68k streams.

Disappointed that they are weekend two only, as this one scratches an itch for me.  Maybe I can find them around town playing the Spider House or something in the interim.