The Flying Bones — Fabien Joffard (drums, vocals) and Thibault Talmont (guitar, vocals) — are a St. Malo, France-based garage rock duo, whose work draws from and seamlessly meshes several influences including Thee Oh Sees, Pneu and Francky Goes To Pointe-à-Pitre among others.

Equipped with just drums, guitar, some effects pedals, guitar and bass amps and two microphones for vocals, the duo pairs the wildness of garage punk with live looping of guitar and other instruments when necessary to create a sound that can easily vacillating between fast and fierce to trance-inducing and contemplative within a musical phrase.

The French duo spent several years refining their live show and they recently managed to compile the best tracks from their garage punk and math fuzz periods into a collection of nine muscular and abrasive tracks — the pair’s forthcoming album Who Are The Flying Bones.

Who Are The Flying Bones‘ latest single “Muscles” is a bruising and forceful ripper that brings DEVO, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, The Oh Sees and even Cinemechanica to mind while displaying the duo’s remarkable musicianship and penchants for motorik-lke groove paired with punchily delivered vocals.

Directed by Thibault Talmont, the accompanying video follows Arthur Boury, a nerdy and nebbishy sort of guy, desperate to turn into a muscle man through weights, exercise, powders and the like — until his dopplegänger shows up to wreck havoc.