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THE FADER MAGAZINE:
We're already huge fans of Mexico both as a country and a place where music happens (see: the Mexico City Rock piece in FADER 51, also: some of us FADER staffers are super proud second-gen Xicanas). But then when we hear shit like Mexico City's mega awesome Los Fancy Free pile bendy guitars on look-I'm-riding-a-moped vocals into a big breezyass racket—a racket that is psychedelically "groovy" but subtly so and not at all Austin Powers—we want to give our neighbors to the South a gigantic hug and invite them to our party where we will be serving silver Patron because we are classy like that and we want them to have a good time. GOD! SO AWESOME! STORY BY DAVID BEVAN
TINYMIXTAPES. COM
MUSIC REVIEWS
Los Fancy Free
Nevergreens, Vol. 1
[Silicone Carne; 2008]
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Styles: retro rock (just let it go, it's worth it)
Others: if this is important to you skip to step 10
Links: Los Fancy Free
Los Fancy Free play such unbridled rock you'll quickly realize you've been wanting this sort of music in your life for a long, long time and just couldn't find the right variation of it.
Let me be the first to say: YOU NEED LOS FANCY FREE.
Here's why:
- Head-nodding isn't what it used to be. Make up for the suck-all, staid people on the subway by piping "Fear" or "Beatle Suit & Purple Boots" into your headphones and going apeshit.
- Rock 'n' roll hasn't been itself in awhile, and it's probably time for you to get reacquainted with it.
- You probably know at least three or four people who also need to get reacquainted with the r'n'r.
- Good r'n'r is like getting a free teabagging from god.
- Los Fancy Free are like The Kaiser Chiefs, but good. And Mexican.
- Like a running back in his prime, Los Fancy Free can be running full speed in one direction, plant their feet, and within seconds zig-zag in myriad directions. The result is jarring, confusing, and invigorating.
- Nevergreens, Vol. 1 never fishes for compliments like a teacher's pet. Rather, it just flat-out impresses the hell out of you like a valedictorian with spirited ragas, ram-job rockers, trippy interludes, victorious synth-trots, and much more.
- Even when they stumble, you can't help but listen in awe. "The Naïve Heat" opens the album with a liver-spotted Verve impression, but this is how you've always wanted The Verve to sound since "Bittersweet Symphony". trippy shit.
- All sorts of great indie-rock is cycled through, whether intentionally or by accident, we may never know. Fatal Flying Guilloteens, The Ventures, Buzzcocks, Franz Ferdinand, solo McCartney, The Stooges, The Makers, both early and recent Brian Jonestown Massacre, Mancino, The Joggers, The Strokes, and many more will be waiting for you on the other side of this trip down rock's good side.
See you there.
1. The Naïve Heat 2. Jajaja 3. Fear 4. Bona's Psychedelic Breakfast 5. Beatle Suit & Purple Boots 6. Organs of Swing 7. Eumerica 8. Overture 9. High Society
by Gumshoe
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