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Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra with a non makeshift new album

Posted by Loren on June 14, 2025

Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra with a non makeshift new album
photo by Lisa Johnson

Los Angeles punk band Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra is back, releasing the single "Omfg" earlier this week, a new song that will be on the band's next album, Yikes Almighty, releasing July 18 on Lauren Records.

The album is described as "a calming existential crisis set to children’s toy instruments."

Frontperson Dustin Hayes makes music under two monikes: Walter Mitty for the folk-punk project, plus the electrified Walter Etc.

Yikes Almighty tracklist:

  1. Econoline
  2. Naked Self Portrait #2
  3. Omfg
  4. Homesick Hour
  5. My Scratched CD of a Brain
  6. The Way She Said It
  7. Fireworks on the Moon
  8. Triplet Daughters 
  9. My Diving Board Game
  10. 101 S
Walter Mitty and His Makeshift Orchestra with a non makeshift new album
photo by Lisa Johnson

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