Yikes Almighty [CD]

Walter Mitty And His Makeshift Orchestra - Yikes Almighty [CD]

Of all the ways for a cult band to rise out of a decade of silence, Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra chose to send their fans on a real life treasure hunt for their new album, “Yikes Almighty”. The album, a calming existential crisis set to children’s toy instruments, was dubbed to a single cassette and buried in a cave in the California desert. The band released a cryptic video that served as the treasure map with the message “if you find it, we will release it.” Though the bedroom folk punk outfit has not released music in 11 years, in actuality they have been consistently releasing and touring under their genre-defying umbrella name, Walter Etc. When asked why the band is split into two identities, singer / songwriter, Walter himself, Dustin Cole Hayes, responded “my life is already such a mess, I decided I’d keep adding to the chaos.” It is Hayes’s cut-your-own-ear-off artistic sincerity that has made the Walter-verse fertile grounds for such strong mythology and deep connections. “Yikes Almighty” recounts a year of Hayes’s houseless nomadic wandering, searching for home and stability, both physically and philosophically.