The Figs were born of hot July practices, conflicting musical interests, and a strong desire to wear dresses and uncomfortable shoes. But you don't have to take our word for it.
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"The Figs' new CD, "What Keeps Me Up At Night", is filled with antique twang,
slowly plucked strings, and soothing harmonies, floating around a picturesque landscape of good and bad men, wary women, guns, love, boats, trains, buses, escape and a
load of other cool things with function like a soundtrack to an imaginary film about
women at the turn of the century.the music and songs never get tedious,
continuously luring the listener further into the next procession of tracks like
chapters in a hardbound book that you'd rather not end."
--- Dege Legg, THE INDEPENDENT | Lafayette, LA
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"The all-women sextet The Figs looks like a country-time tea party of pretty girls in pretty dresses, but it rocks, Cajun-style, like a roadhouse full of moonshine and buckshot."
--- Allison Fensterstock, GAMBIT WEEKLY | New Orleans, LA
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"In listening to their music, one is at first struck by the captivating three- and four-part harmonies as they adeptly tackle old-time country, folk, rockabilly and bluegrass songs, along with some original lyrics and musical arrangements thrown into the mix."
--- Kelli Moore, TIMES PICAYUNE | New Orleans, LA
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"The Figs, a six-piece outta Lafayette, Louisiana are a bit like what would happen if The Pipettes decided to wear flowery as opposed to polka-dotted dresses, traded in their keyboards for banjos and were just generally more Fig-like. The sassy sextet stomp their feet and bat their eyelashes as they hoot, holler and coo their own interpretations of Louisiana roots rock."
--- Alexis Swerdoff, PAPER MAGAZINE | New York, NY
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"I was really amazed by the level of talent of The Figs; they are able to easily replicate
so many different sounds and yet they manage to retain their individuality. It is odd,
yet compelling, how The Figs remind the listener of so many bands yet still
not sound like anyone but themselves. "
--- Jesse White, THE CORNER NEWS | Auburn, AL
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"The Figs have taken a completely different tack by cutting their own path.
The shows are filled with lovely harmonies and a sense of being
delightfully out of phase with modernity."
--- Alex V. Cook, COUNTRY ROADS MAGAZINE | Baton Rouge, LA
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"On Cross that Bridge, they recorded one of the most haunting songs of the year."
--- Nick Pittman, OFFBEAT MAGAZINE New Orleans, LA
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"From blues to rockabilly to straight-up old-timey and haunting a capella, these ladies make the vintage stuff sound fresh and the new stuff sound retro."
--- Sharon Arms Doucet, AUTHOR | Lafayette, LA
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"With the girls decked out in modest dresses, each of The Figs' live shows acts as a throwback to equally modest times. It's all girls. It's dresses. It's rootsmusic laced with sugar-sweet harmonies."
--- Tim Landry, TIMES OF ACADIANA | Lafayette, LA
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"If there are three things in this world I like, it is women, banjos and ukuleles, and The Figs present all three with the charm of a county fair, their harmonies clear as a church bell."
--- Alex V. Cook, 225 MAGAZINE | Baton Rouge, LA
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"This Acadiana female sextet makes sweet music out of vintage mountain sounds. Ukulele, banjo and guitar are the instrumental underpinnings for the group's formidable vocal talents; it's members alternate lead and harmony vocals for an ever-changing tapestry of voices and textures."
--- THE INDEPENDENT | Lafayette, LA
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"In the great musical orchard of Acadiana, The Figs bloom on a tree scarcely plucked: vintage string mountain music. The members of the female sextet (decked out like city-going country ladies of the 1920s) each sing backing harmonies and switch up lead vocal duties. Between old time swing, country weeping and sassy takes on both traditional tunes and similaroriginals, the Figs take sounds like that of the "O Brother Where Art Thou?" soundtrack and add their own grit and spit - a sweet yet strong concoction."
--- Nick Pittman, THE INDEPENDENT | Lafayette, LA
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"The Figs can be haunting, uplifting and shimmy-inducing all in the same evening."
--- Tim Landry, TIMES OF ACADIANA | Lafayette, LA
