Interview With The FMS About Their Double-Side Single, Gender Binary

The Brooklyn-bred (and now Ithaca-based) duo of Matte Namer (they/them) and Frankie Rex (they/them, he/him) known as the duo The FMs are looking to use their forthcoming double-single release (“Song X” and “Bad Girl”) to help extract the stigma & continued ignorance embedded in society’s gender experience.

Merch will also be available in conjunction with the release of these tracks (with all profits being donated to the Black Trans Travel Fund). Their goal is to embrace androgyny and amplify the voices of “the other” (their band name is even a play on the gender binary).

The forthcoming double release of “Song X” and “Bad Girl” was recorded at Greenpoint’s ADIM Studios with Grammy-winning engineer Brian Forbes and John Siket (Sonic Youth, Blonde Redhead and Fountains of Wayne).

Though officially formed in 2017, Matte Namer and Frankie Rex have been friends since their high school years growing up in NYC — a time in both of their lives that was rife with moments of self-reflection/analysis, ostracization, depression and experimentation. Both Namer & Rex found their journeys of self-discovery and identity weave with one another, and with a shared musical bedrock of artistic inspirations (artists that unapologetically march to their own beat like Nine Inch Nails, St. Vincent, A Perfect Circle, New Order, Elliott Smith, to name a few), The FMs were born. They started their career through self-curated immersive live performances in Brooklyn (intimate and inclusive underground art performances that took place on a historic boat docked in Brooklyn) which led to their 2017 debut album ‘Machinacene Epoch’ (which took cues from glam, synth-pop, industrial, stoner rock, dance music, and beyond).

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