Tinker Bell’s Cough

F.G.S.—the musical project of Los Angeles-based artist Flannery Silva—announces the debut vinyl press of her seminal debut album ‘Tinker Bell’s Cough’, out May 30 via Scenic Route, alongside a new single, ‘The Punisher (Tinker Bell’s Edit)’. 

‘Tinker Bell’s Cough’ is a surreal Americana pop record that filters the language of girlhood, heartbreak, and fantasy through a warped, theatrical lens. It’s Lana Del Rey meets David Berman in a cartoon tornado, with traces of Dolly Parton, Arthur Russell, and David Lynch.

Silva describes the record as “fairy tale theatre.” It’s packed with alt-universe country hits (‘Beth’s Deth’, ‘American Shield’), strange anthems (‘I’m Growing A Cross Around My Neck’), and experimental ballads rooted in character and place. ‘Passions’, the opening track, was inspired by Mary MacLane’s ‘I Await the Devil’s Coming’, while the title track imagines Tinker Bell herself singing a lullaby to God.

New single ‘The Punisher’ is a dusky road song about loneliness and transcendence. “It’s about driving north on I-5 in California, worrying my car will overheat, bargaining with God, and falling in love with dust tornados,” Silva says.

Raised in the woods of upstate New York and formerly one half of the cult duo Odwalla88, Silva brings a visual artist’s sensibility to music. She studied art in Baltimore and continues to make sculpture and performance work that informs her songwriting. Tinker Bell’s Cough was written on the Rhode Island coast, where she and Ceglie met weekly to write and record—drawing from old texts, visual references, and poetry.

F.G.S. has drawn praise from NTS, The FADER, Gorilla vs. Bear, The Line of Best Fit, Artforum, Sex Magazine, and more. With the reissue of Tinker Bell’s Cough and the release of “The Punisher,” Silva continues to expand the strange, magnetic world of F.G.S., one that feels both deeply American and entirely her own.