The Fresh & Onlys

Freshened up for The Fresh & Onlys

Monday, September 20th, 2010 | musiX | 1 Comment

I’ve been hibernating in my hyperbaric oxygen chamber since the closing minutes of MFNW, and I think I added a few years to my life in the process. For a few days I felt like I was 16 again, and only wanted to write about Ke$ha and Linkin Park—I had to smoke a pack of Camel Lights and drink a bottle of Crown Royal last night to snap out of it.

Which brings me to The Fresh & Onlys. San Francisco is a foggy little hotbed of rock that includes Sic Alps, Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall, but The Fresh & Onlys have probably released more music—several 7-inches, two full-lengths—in the past two years than all those bands combined. And they don’t appear to be slowing. The four-piece will release Play It Strange on October 12 on In The Red. Needless to say the lead single “Waterfall” is a garage rock twanger (that ends with a classic fade-out) that has me feeling my current age once again.

“Waterfall” - The Fresh & Onlys

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Sandwitches good

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 | musiX | No Comments

I had to go a little further than the refrigerator to find these Sandwitches … OK, that’s ridiculous. But I’m not deleting it.

San Francisco’s The Sandwitches play sweet, sweet, sweet pop tunes that traverse the long and lonely stretch of road between early country western and folk and Girl Groups and British Invasion. And the three-piece has a new record called How to Make Ambient Sadcake that features an odd, two-legged cat on the cover. What I’m trying to say here, is that you have all the ingredients for a terrific Sandwitch (again, it stays).

The group includes Heidi Alexander of The Fresh & Onlys, another band I’m crazy about, and the album is the first release from new S.F. label Turn Up Records. The buoyant, slightly off-kilter guitars and vocal harmonies sometimes remind me of The Kirby Grips, a long-lost Bay Area favorite of mine. Except more lo-fi—which if played on a hi-fi will give you quite a mid-fi experience. I’m sorry, were you expecting another Sandwitch pun?

“Wicked Inger” - The Sandwitches

“Back to the Sea” - The Sandwitches

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