New! Releasing February 2, 2026 is the new Flumergex album, Finding Home.
As some of you know, the signature Flumergex funk sound has been continually evolving over the years to explore our various musical interests. Finding Home continues that journey home, with a blend of alt-rock electronica with influences from country-folk to industrial techno.
The local Oregon audience may be interested to know that the album’s stripped-down opening song “Keep Dreamin'” was recorded in a cabin in the woods at Silver Falls State Park (as was the acoustic guitar part for the album’s most likely unlikely hit single, “Better & Better”).
Other than the cabin recordings mentioned above, gearheads will be interested to learn that all the other music on Finding Home was produced on an outboard sampler-looper-sequencer, which greatly facilitated the exploration of that badass industrial techno sound, interspersed with signature Flumergex dreamy grooves and gentle melodies… and some truly weird synth lines.
The track list on Finding Home is:
- Keep Dreamin’ – acoustic singer-songwriter folk-pop peppy love song, just a guy and a guitar (and some birds). The lyrics first appeared in impressions.
- The Only Me – from smooth groove to hardcore industrial rock, this song is a declaration of identity, an anthem for anyone who doesn’t want to feel like just another face in the crowd
- The Farm – the lyrics to this autobiographical reminiscence were originally published in Jesse’s 2020 poetry collection, impressions. You would think it should be a country song; but it came out sounding a little more like an uptempo rendition of the Animals belting out “The House of the Rising Sun” with maybe (wannabe) Carlos Santana on the guitar
- Sunset – a nature-lover’s anthem in celebration of a beautifully scenic evening: a sunset, a mountain, a river, and majestic trees. Inspired by a camping trip, this song’s lyrics also first appeared in impressions.
- Lately – laid-back slow groove electronica with looped ever-morphing synth sounds and love song lyrics
- Where I Belong – kick the groove into rock gear with some distortion and an assertion of self-determination
- Old Magic – marveling at the hidden secret powers of an ancient grove of groovy trees, this is the album’s third song whose lyrics first appeared in impressions.
- Normal Is Weird – the title says it all! This song’s lyrics were too weird to be included in impressions, although they were written in the same time period. True hardcore fans of Ween will appreciate Jesse’s vocal performance on this tune; but the rest of the world will probably never hear this one, because the algorithm doesn’t want you to question the status quo.
- Lucky Bridge Maybe – the album’s only instrumental, this is really a rather cheerful little ditty, with relaxing ocean waves sound effects in the background, and real birds-in-the-park sounds sampled on a cell phone while Jesse was on a camping trip with his kids at the Oregon Coast.
- Better & Better – musically and conceptually, this song is like if Shania Twain hooked up with Beck for a one-night stand and had a love child who strangely looked like Gorillaz. Or something like that. Maybe. What I’m saying is, it’s got just a little bit of a country twang buried in there among the electronica-style drum sample loops and synth-pop pads. But my wife wouldn’t dig it if it were an actual country song. It’s simplest to say, this is a pop song: an actual honest-to-goodness pop song, from a singer-songwriter who more often writes not-pop songs. Incidentally, “Better & Better” is the fifth of these ten songs with lyrics that first appeared in Jesse’s poetry collection, impressions. Oh, and it’s a love song, too.
Finding Home is currently available for preorder, if you’re into that sort of thing; and after February 2, 2026 it will be available for streaming or download from your favorite digital music platform!
Flumergex hopes you will enjoy the music. Remember folks, merge within a state of flux. Thanks for listening!