Fits and Starts, by O Fracas (CD on I Can Count Music)
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Description: | CD on I Can Count | |
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| Format: | CD | ||
| Label: | I Can Count Music | ||
| Price: | £10.79 | ||
| Catalogue number: | ICCM005 | ||
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I wasn’t sure 2008 could top last year for music releases, but it’s off to a great start with some incredible albums firmly under its belt, and it’s only May. Now we have O Fracas to join the likes of Portishead, Lykke Li and Midnight Juggernauts in making 2008 a vintage year for superb albums. Hailing from Leeds, this four piece tread a different path to fellow Yorkshire big hitters Kaiser Chiefs and The Pigeon Detectives. Instead of the now familiar indie-pop, O Fracas give us something different, and ultimately much more satisfying. Fits and starts is probably the best way to describe “Fits and Starts”, the guitars battle each other in staccato bursts, but they always have a strong melody that keeps you listening. “Fact Finding” with its ADHD rhythms and “Follow Sue” has a huge urgency about it that recalls Toyko Police Club at their best. They also do the quieter moments well, on “You can Hear The World From Menwith Hill” they reveal a less hectic side; but it doesn’t last long. The whole album has an understated production to it, and I love the lo-fi feel. I hate it when you listen to an album and you know it’s been worked on and tweaked for months getting the sound “perfect”, and just comes away feeling like a product with no soul. I’ve not had the album long, but it already has cemented itself in my collection, and I hope 2008 will be a good year for them. They certainly have the songs to make them a huge success, and can’t wait to hear more. Judging by this debut, there are big things coming for O Fracas. Review date: 27 May 2008
What the label says:"Leeds four-piece, who make music that is artful yet accessible, intelligent yet danceable, complex yet catchy. The vocals are quintessentially English and rendered with a folkish clarity, the guitars are used for riffs and irascible rhythms, the songs skip and slide, jerk and bounce, but everything is condensed into three taut, tight minutes and played with vigour, if not venom" (Paul Lester, guardian unlimited). Following on from two critically acclaimed singles on Marquis Cha Cha the band signed to burgeoning indie I Can Count Records and subsequently released the ‘Factfinding EP’ in December of last year, before following it up with current single ‘Brouhaha’ (Artrocker Mar-08 Single Of The Month). Having become friends whilst at school, Alex and Ben met Matt somewhere along the line and if legend is correct, encountered Jim wandering the moors one day. In testament to argument being the mother of all song writing inspiration, they named themselves O Fracas. As they put it, “Fracas is a reference to writing songs via blazing arguments, the act of creation through force, like a Super Collider. Originality is born of forcing things together that conventional thinking says won't go together”. The album condenses the bands first 3 years of work, influenced by the likes of Fugazi, Fela Kuti & The Mars Volta into one un-cohesive package. Ranging from the folky lament of ‘Menwith Hill’ to the frenetic avant-rhumba-punk of ‘Zeroes & Ones,’ a dystopian view of “the idea of a 'liberating' universal internet consciousness.” |
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