The Fresh & Onlys: Do You Believe In Destiny...
Would you like to hear The Fresh & Onlys kick it like Roy Orbison? Listen to "Do You Believe In Destiny," the first single from their upcoming EP, Secret Walls. If you like what you hear, you can find info below on the release and the band's tour schedule, courtesy of Force Field PR.
The Fresh & Onlys preps Secret Walls EP for Sacred Bones label
STREAM: "Do You Believe in Destiny?"
http://soundcloud.com/forcefieldpr/the-fresh-onlys-do-you-believe
VIDEO: "Waterfall" (Dir. byAndreas Trolf)
http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/musicvideo/8434-fresh-onlys-waterfall-in-the-red
The Fresh & Onlys have had an unusually prolific past couple of years. On the heels of their critically acclaimed album Play It Strange, the band returns with a bold creative leap forward on their new EP Secret Walls. The cavernous opening sounds of Secret Walls reveal the strong threads of hazy post-punk melancholy that have been woven throughout the band's catalog and have now fully matured.
Tim Cohen's crooning baritone is more confident and commanding than ever as it is sewn into the dizzying tapestry of melody, while the guitar sounds of Wymond Miles often suggest the dynamic interplay of Verlaine/Lloyd. Long in the works, this EP was recorded in guitarist Miles' San Francisco studio and properly captures their ambience while bringing forward Kyle Gibson's lock-step drumming and the unique melodic play of bassist Shayde Sartin. It is the next logical step for the F&O's and their moody, jangly guitar pop.
Last year's Play It Strange was received with wide acclaim from an enormous amount of press outlets including Spin Magazine. It was also #29 on Pitchfork's top 50 albums of the year. The Fresh & Onlys toured with Deerhunter and Clinic, and performed at the Matt Groening curated ATP in Minehead England. Heralded as "one of rock's hardest working bands," they head out on tour this Spring, playing a handful of shows at SXSW and then embarking on a North American tour in April, and a full European tour in May, culminating with a performance at the Primavera Festival in Barcelona.
"The Fresh & Onlys are set apart by an endearingly fussy devotion to songcraft and an understated and unfakeable weirdness... their possibly unhealthy familiarity with garage-rock arcana is balanced out by a keen songwriter's eye, and their obsession with the past is elevated by genuine affection and love" -Pitchfork
"While still jangly and poppy, it's also a little gloomy, a lot new wave, with buzzy Joy Divison bass, squalls of wild psychedelic guitar, plenty of ooooh's and aaaah's, tribal drumming, angular riffing, a perfect mix of sixties jangle, and cold/new wave gloom. The production is lush, but also weird, and tripped out, ethereal and gauzy...definite contender for year ends best" -Aquarius Records
"These songs are straightforward, to the point, and fully endowed with the feelings engendered by decades of guitar rock. They're powerful examples of not just the songwriting prowess of Tim Cohen and Shayde Sartin, but of a fundamental understanding for how a good guitar line is an elemental force" -Dusted
"San Francisco's The Fresh & Onlys stood out both onstage and off, looking like a nomadic weed tribe with dark secrets and sounding like wild evangelicals with deep musical gifts" -FADER
THE FRESH & ONLYS
02/27 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill ~
03/16 - 03/19 Austin, TX SXSW
03/21 San Diego, CA Tin Can Alehouse
03/22 Los Angeles, CA Echo *
04/12 Denver, CO Hi Dive &
04/13 Lawrence, KS The Jackpot Saloon &
04/14 Bloomington, IN The Bishop &
04/15 Pittsburgh, PA Brillobox &
04/18 Cincinnati, OH MOTR Pub &
04/19 Saint Louis, MO The Billiken Club !
04/20 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall %
04/21 Toronto, ON Parts & Labour &
04/22 Montreal, QC Il Motore &
04/23 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg %
04/24 Philadelphia, PA Kung Fu Necktie %
04/25 Washington, DC Red Palace %
04/27 Atlanta, GA The Earl %
04/28 Birmingham AL Bottletree %
~ = w/ Growlers, Pleasure Kills, Wrong Words
* = w/ The Strange Boys, Natural Child
% = w/ Crocodiles, Young Prisms
& = w/ Young Prisms
! = w/ Crocodiles
The Fresh & Onlys
Secret Walls EP
(Sacred Bones)
Street Date: April 26, 2011
THE FRESH & ONLYS LINKS:
MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/thefreshonlys
Band blog - http://thefreshandonlys.blogspot.com/
Label - http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/
Sincerely,
Letters From A Tapehead
The Fresh & Onlys preps Secret Walls EP for Sacred Bones label
STREAM: "Do You Believe in Destiny?"
http://soundcloud.com/forcefieldpr/the-fresh-onlys-do-you-believe
VIDEO: "Waterfall" (Dir. byAndreas Trolf)
http://pitchfork.com/tv/#/musicvideo/8434-fresh-onlys-waterfall-in-the-red
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| Photo by Kristin Klein |
Tim Cohen's crooning baritone is more confident and commanding than ever as it is sewn into the dizzying tapestry of melody, while the guitar sounds of Wymond Miles often suggest the dynamic interplay of Verlaine/Lloyd. Long in the works, this EP was recorded in guitarist Miles' San Francisco studio and properly captures their ambience while bringing forward Kyle Gibson's lock-step drumming and the unique melodic play of bassist Shayde Sartin. It is the next logical step for the F&O's and their moody, jangly guitar pop.
Last year's Play It Strange was received with wide acclaim from an enormous amount of press outlets including Spin Magazine. It was also #29 on Pitchfork's top 50 albums of the year. The Fresh & Onlys toured with Deerhunter and Clinic, and performed at the Matt Groening curated ATP in Minehead England. Heralded as "one of rock's hardest working bands," they head out on tour this Spring, playing a handful of shows at SXSW and then embarking on a North American tour in April, and a full European tour in May, culminating with a performance at the Primavera Festival in Barcelona.
"The Fresh & Onlys are set apart by an endearingly fussy devotion to songcraft and an understated and unfakeable weirdness... their possibly unhealthy familiarity with garage-rock arcana is balanced out by a keen songwriter's eye, and their obsession with the past is elevated by genuine affection and love" -Pitchfork
"While still jangly and poppy, it's also a little gloomy, a lot new wave, with buzzy Joy Divison bass, squalls of wild psychedelic guitar, plenty of ooooh's and aaaah's, tribal drumming, angular riffing, a perfect mix of sixties jangle, and cold/new wave gloom. The production is lush, but also weird, and tripped out, ethereal and gauzy...definite contender for year ends best" -Aquarius Records
"These songs are straightforward, to the point, and fully endowed with the feelings engendered by decades of guitar rock. They're powerful examples of not just the songwriting prowess of Tim Cohen and Shayde Sartin, but of a fundamental understanding for how a good guitar line is an elemental force" -Dusted
"San Francisco's The Fresh & Onlys stood out both onstage and off, looking like a nomadic weed tribe with dark secrets and sounding like wild evangelicals with deep musical gifts" -FADER
THE FRESH & ONLYS
02/27 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill ~
03/16 - 03/19 Austin, TX SXSW
03/21 San Diego, CA Tin Can Alehouse
03/22 Los Angeles, CA Echo *
04/12 Denver, CO Hi Dive &
04/13 Lawrence, KS The Jackpot Saloon &
04/14 Bloomington, IN The Bishop &
04/15 Pittsburgh, PA Brillobox &
04/18 Cincinnati, OH MOTR Pub &
04/19 Saint Louis, MO The Billiken Club !
04/20 Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall %
04/21 Toronto, ON Parts & Labour &
04/22 Montreal, QC Il Motore &
04/23 Brooklyn, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg %
04/24 Philadelphia, PA Kung Fu Necktie %
04/25 Washington, DC Red Palace %
04/27 Atlanta, GA The Earl %
04/28 Birmingham AL Bottletree %
~ = w/ Growlers, Pleasure Kills, Wrong Words
* = w/ The Strange Boys, Natural Child
% = w/ Crocodiles, Young Prisms
& = w/ Young Prisms
! = w/ Crocodiles
The Fresh & Onlys
Secret Walls EP
(Sacred Bones)
Street Date: April 26, 2011
THE FRESH & ONLYS LINKS:
MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/thefreshonlys
Band blog - http://thefreshandonlys.blogspot.com/
Label - http://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/
Sincerely,
Letters From A Tapehead
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