Description:	LP on Woodsist
	Format:	LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Indie Rock
	Label:	Woodsist
	Price:	£15.69
	Availability:	Dispatched within 2-5 days (on average).

5
...according to our Brian on 18 September 2009.

Righto, here's an album that nearly, almost fell right under the bleeding radar & is miles better than the other Woodsist album in this week. The Fresh & Onlys combine sparkling, frisky new wave that harks back to both the embryonic NZ Dunedin scene & more distinctly post punk era Liverpool! Fuzzy shambling nuggets that come in somewhere between Swell Maps & the Bunnymen but share that kinda oddly focussed lo-fi ghost rock vibe with the likes of Crystal Stilts. The songs are incredibly addictive gems that improve with each listen and surely fans of The Coral's weirder psychedelic freakier moments will find plenty to lap up from this wonderful record! 'Invisible Forces' is one of the best songs i've heard this month, check these guys out! 'Grey-Eyed Girls' is an LP/digipak CD release.

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What their label says...

Woodsist continue their killer run of releases with the second Fresh and Onlys album: When Tim Cohen told Shayde Sartin he was writing a song called "Be My Hooker," the Fresh & Onlys bassist looked at thesinger/guitarist and said... "'There's no way we're gonna have a song with that title, dude,'" explains Sartin. "But sure enough, helaid a riff down and I was like, 'Jesus christ, I can't believe you pulled something meaningful out of such a stupid line.'" Welcometo the push/pull dynamic that's fueled the Fresh & Onlys' steady stream of releases over the past year, including last spring'sself-titled LP (Castle Face) and this fall's Grey-Eyed Girls (Woodsist). And to think it all started the old-fashioned way withSartin and Cohen simply hanging out after work, playing their favorite punk (Buzzcocks, The Mekons) and classic rock (CountryJoe and the Fish, cued up alongside slabs of psych from the group's homebase, San Francisco) records alongside a growingcollection of empty beer cans. "I can't really explain what happened or why," says Sartin. "I guess we listened to records until wewere on the same page, and from that point on, we never stopped recording." As simple as all of that sounds, the duo firstbought a tape machine five years ago. When that failed to produce any concrete cuts, Cohen focused on his previous avant-popband, Black Fiction, and Sartin split his time between session and live work for such bands as the Skygreen Leopards,Papercuts and Citay. Not to mention his close friend Kelley Stoltz, who ended up releasing the first Fresh & Onlys 7" (the limitedImaginary Friends EP) in early 2008. With so much music hitting shops in such a short time (Sartin says the band already hasboxes of backlogged tapes), you might think the Fresh & Onlys camp have a problem with quality control. Quite the contrary;Sartin and Cohen are very careful about what they release. And while the duo writes and records the band's songs, thearrangements are usually fleshed out with guitarist Wymond Miles, drummer Kyle Gibson, and backup singer Heidi Alexander."If we take a song into the studio or a live setting and it doesn't have wings," says Sartin, "Then we just ditch it and keep thecharming demo version."