Specimens of Fancy Turning

PHLOP-0004

Release Date: 01/12/2026

Album

Specimens of Fancy Turning is Janky Switch’s horror album — a slow, beat-driven descent through haunted basements, tormented bodies, and a world still marked by the old, witch-burned ways. Dread and longing are braided together across the record: bodies that can’t stop screaming, doors that call from the other side, and the small, stubborn dream of a better time.

Guest vocalists Eth Eonel, Freddie KC and Drew Stephenson carry the highlight tracks, each bringing a different voice — from haunted body horror to a hymn inspired by The Gospel of Aradia — while the core of the record (Kick It, Inhale, Arrari, A Little Bit, Exhale) and four bonus instrumentals explore everything from big beat to field recordings.

The title and cover are lifted from Specimens of Fancy Turning, a 19th-century book of albumen photographs by Edward J. Woolsey: geometric, spiralled forms cut with a lathe and then photographed — figures that seem to unspool light across a surface, the way dread does here.

Track listing

• Locked Door (feat. Eth Eonel) - A tale of haunted body horror
• I have no mouth but I must scream (feat. Freddie KC) - Trapped in a tormented body, unable to scream.
• Witches Through The Ages (feat. Eth Eonel) - The Gospel of Aradia inspired track about the plight of witches.
• Keep Falling (feat. Drew Stephenson) - Dreams of better times
• Kick It
• Inhale
• Arrari
• A little bit
• Exhale
• Bonus Tracks
• Locked Door (Instrumental)
• I have no mouth but I must scream (Instrumental)
• Witches Through The Ages (Instrumental)
• Keep Falling (Instrumental)

Credits

• Janky Switch — composition, lyrics, production
• Guest vocalists & writers
  • Eth Eonel — vocals, lyrics
  • Freddie KC — vocals, lyrics
  • Drew Stephenson — vocals, guitar, lyrics
• With thanks to Eth Eonel, Freddie KC and Drew Stephenson.
• Cover artwork — after Edward J. Woolsey, Specimens of Fancy Turning (albumen silver prints), via the Public Domain Review; text by Hunter Dukes (Philadelphia Museum of Art).