Beautiful Freaks is a Seattle-based hardcore glam band known for producing sonically heavy and lyrically angry “queercore music for you to cry about.” The story goes that guitarist James Bonaci and drummer Peter Bryson bonded in 2013 over a shared love of experimental punk, metal, and jazz. The duo later added vocalist Meg Hall into the mix, resulting in a discography dripping with frenetic guitar, reverberating vocals, and thrashing breakdowns. The Freaks’ most recent single, “CROCODILE,” is a sprawling, psych-rock-leaning revenge tale that has once again earned the band airtime on KEXP, a more polished and fleshed-out evolution from their last full-length release Cameo Artist in 2018, representing a new era marked by a jazzier overall sound. Other acclaims for the trio include their debut performance at SXSW 2022, a live KEXP performance in 2019, and gigs with a wide list of artists based in the Pacific Northwest — Naked Giants, Tres Leches, The Black Tones, and Dude York, to name a