Artists starting with F

Interstellar

,

Frankie Rose, “Interstellar” (Slumberland, 2012)
Ms. Rose has been involved with a number of famed neo-garage-punk luminaries, but (as the distributor warned us) this is a 180-degrees departure from that stuff. It’s a sort of electro-pop/indie rock fusion, all immaculately metallic surface sheen and frictionless propulsion. Thing is, it’s also really good; the best songs are dramatic and catchy in a way that owes a lot to the girl-group sound Rose’s old scene drew on, and the music is austere, not slick. The fast ones rock, the slow ones are gorgeous, and the whole thing is growing on me with every listen.
Try 2, 5, 6, 7
2/28/12

/0 Comments/by

Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful

,

Flo Morrissey, “Tomorrow Will Be Beautiful” (Glassnote, 2015)
Lush, paisley-colored folk-pop kaleidoscope, somewhere between Donovan and Stevie Nicks. What really makes this special is the way it goes beyond mood music to achieve that flamboyantly kooky charm/enchantment that gave the real ‘60s stuff its copelling personality.
Try 2, 10
4/17/16

/0 Comments/by

L’Amitié

,

Françoise Hardy, “L’Amitié” (Light In The Attic, 2015; original release 1965)
The melancholy queen of ‘60s French pop, with that distinctive Seine-shimmering-in-high-wind quaver in her voice, is showcased here in an increasingly folk/psych-filigreed style, complete with harpsichord. Like all her ‘60s work, it’s great.
Try 1, 7
4/17/16

/0 Comments/by

Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles

,

Françoise Hardy, “Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles” (Light in the Attic, 2015; original release 1962)
Hardy was a ‘60s female generational rock icon in the Francophone world in a way to which nobody in the Anglosphere came close until Janis & Grace Slick. This is the album that made her name, and it’s sharp, gorgeous pop in a Phil-Spector-in-a-Left-Bank-cafe mode, with Hardy’s lunar, crystalline alto vocals on top.
Try 1, 7
4/17/16

/0 Comments/by

Fuzzy

,

Fuzzy, “Fuzzy” (Seed, 1994)
From Massachusetts, this group had brief membership overlap with the Lemonheads, and this debut features a guitar lead by Dinosaur Jr’s Mike Johnson (on 4), and shares some common ground with both bands – that languid-yet-vivid, collegetown-pastoral sort of rolling, noisy guitar-pop. Yet there are similarities to the Breeders as well, in the intertwined female vocal leads and a certain drive and snappiness. But in the end, there’s something really distinctive about Fuzzy – a blending of open space with bursts of sound and emotion that for some reason makes me think of running through falling leaves.
Try 2 (rocking), 3 (boppy), 4 (explosive), 6 (moody)

/0 Comments/by

Farther Along

,

Flying Burrito Brothers, “Farther Along” (A & M, 1988; originally released 1969-early 1970s)
On the first dozen-or-so cuts on this compilation, Gram Parsons single-handedly invented what would come to be known as “alt-country,” but from another angle this could be seen as the last great ‘60s pop record. The brightness and concision verge into an eerie, lurid intensity with echoes of the archaic (or even occult) recall Sgt Pepper, as do some of the song structures.
Try 5, 6
7/26/12

/0 Comments/by

Sunderberry Dream

,

Fuzz, “Sunderberry Dream” (Drag City, 2013)
Fuzz is the new project from Ty Segall, the hardest-working man in garage-punk, and it’s one of his best: rangy, hyper-kinetic Sabbath-heavy rave-ups with killer guitar. Check out the cool, non-LP King Crimson cover on B/1.
1/23/14

/0 Comments/by

I Know There’s Something Going On

,

Frida, “I Know There’s Something Going On” 12” (Vogue, 1982)
Great solo turn by the ABBA vocalist, glacial new-wave synthscapes over thunder-rolling drums and taut guitar, all in service of Frida’s cool-yet-drama-charged evocation of romantic paranoia.
Try 1/1
4/7/19

/0 Comments/by

Play It Strange”(In The Red, 2010

,

Fresh & Onlys, “Play It Strange”(In The Red, 2010)
Garage-psych-guitar-pop from one of the very best bands around. This is a further move away from the mind-buzzing cable-car-clang-and-grind noise-phasing of “Grey Eyed Girls,” but its more tempered and spaciously surprise-morphing soundscapes are equally disorienting and majestic in their own right.
Try A/1, A/2, B/3 5/12/11

/0 Comments/by

Play It Strange

,

Fresh And Onlys, “Play It Strange” (In The Red, 2010)
This release finds one of today’s finest bands, bar none, in transition from the psych-punk blasts of their earlier work to the more meditative stuff on 2012’s “Long Slow Dance.” This has some of their most gorgeous music, and some of their most explosive.
Try 2, 3, 4.
1/13/13

/0 Comments/by

Contact Info

tomhaze88@gmail.com

COPYRIGHT MICHAEL O’FLAHERTY 2020 | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | WEBSITE DESIGNED AND DEVELOPED BY DIGITAL AMMO | ADMIN LOGIN