Posts Tagged "standard fare"
I think I've got a bit of a band-crush on Standard Fare. It's getting a bit out of hand, if I'm honest. I think I'm just a sucker for several things, various little trigger points in my head that close the series of synapses that leads to me to completely forget myself. Stuff like boy-girl vocals, clean choppy guitars, start-stop drums, and buckets of vim. That sort of thing. Hence, I guess, the crush....
There's some solid hipster names out on the shelves this week knife-fighting for your recessionary 7" hard-earned, including
White Rabbits' excellent "Percussion Gun",
Fyfe Dangerfield (off of The Maccabees) and his entertaining "She Needs Me" and the twitchy goodness of
Good Shoes' "Under Control". All worthy choices, we feel - but this week's headgear gets tipped towards San Francisco's 60s-tinged garage psychers
The Fresh And Onlys, Chicago's noisy and bombastic...