The Old-Fashioned Way

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A swarm of multi-talented musicians with a dazzling array of weird instruments erupting from the stage.



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Crowded around their sage leader, the OFW give off the ease of a family band, though no member remotely resembles another. They're Dickensian orphans, then, who've gathered to put on a minstrel show — and who've had to find a sound to fit their strange batch of instruments. The two red-blooded guitars and the drum kit give the songs a sturdy rock core when the band wishes it. But there are also, at points, a Paul McCartney–style toy bass, an accordion, a triangle, a wailing keyboard, and a melodica, which pile into a haunted and seductive sort of antipop, mournful and klezmerish on a track like "Robot on Fire" but boppy, harmonic, and needing a restroom on "Take Your Fluids."

--SF Bay Guardian



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A live favorite for their rocking songs and multi-instrument pop attack.

--The Bay Bridged



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A less frantic version of the Arcade Fire.definitely worth your time.

--The Deli SF



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Deep-voice indie pop jewels featuring every instrument under the sun.

--The Bay Bridged



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Like the Magnetic Fields with a more impressive back-up band.

--Noisepop.com



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Danceable indie with a sense of humor straight outta the Tenderloin.

--SF Bay Guardian



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San Francisco has always had a vibrant indie-pop community, but The Old-Fashioned Way are the first locals I’ve seen (who aren’t freak-folk collectives) to really go bigChris Wu’s basso vocals bridge the hitherto-unrealized gap between Calvin Johnson and Johnny Cash.--Albondigas



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