“We’ve been kicking around the idea of doing a Botch cover for a long time,” Wounded Touch guitarist Mike Poshedly tells No Echo, “until their reunion was announced and it lost its allure."
The hesitation didn’t last long. After Poshedly and vocalist Nick drove down to Chicago to catch Botch on their reunion tour, the sheer electricity of the room reignited the idea. “The excitement and energy in that room left me feeling inspired after watching the room come alive,” he says. One song in particular stuck with him—“Framce,” a longtime standout from Botch's 2002 album, An Anthology of Dead Ends. “I can still hear everyone in the Metro screaming ‘we owe you nothing,’” Poshedly recalls, a moment that ultimately pushed Wounded Touch toward covering that specific track.
Now out on streaming platforms, Wounded Touch’s take on “Framce” feels less like a novelty and more like a direct response to that collective experience. The band recorded the cover themselves at drummer Alex Larson’s studio in Saginaw, Michigan, keeping the process raw and immediate.
Rather than reworking the song, Wounded Touch lean into the tension and urgency that made “Framce” resonate in the first place, paying tribute to Botch while capturing the spark that lit the room in Chicago.
Back in May of this year, Wounded Touch released their sophomore album, A Vivid Depiction of Collapse.
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