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Black Fiction

July 24th, 2006

Black Fiction
Ghost Ride

[Howells Transmitter; 2006; Psych-Pop / Folk]

So Devendra and Andy might prefer to call their music “naturalisimo” or some shit like that instead of freak-folk. Okay. And after hearing Black Fiction’s new record, I have to agree that they (along with Akron/Family) are more deserving of the freak tag than Banhart and Vetiver ever were. But unlike the raucous side of Akron/Family, Black Fiction swerves like a Microbus barreling from San Fran to Burning Man, picking up hitch-hikers of old school hip-hop, sunny 60s SoCal beach pop, vintage psychedelia and even some dub along the way.

There’s no easy comparison to be made of “sounds like ______” when no two songs sound alike on a record*. Which is a good thing, and that’s exactly what Black Fiction is good at. One minutes it’s a jangly, tamborine-shaking sing-a-long built around hand claps and a bassy dub groove and the next it’s swaying acoustic guitar picking, finger snapping and percussion that sounds like it’s in the next room. Not many bands can make a record that is this disjointed and this listenable. The only indescretion I see is the vocals on “I Spread The Disease”. Sounds like Jimmy Fallon singing that damn “Idiot Boyfriend” song he did.

If The Raconteurs record is “The Rustbelt’s Nevermind” (don’t know who said that, but somebody did), I’ll just go ahead and call this the new Pet Sounds.

Download I Spread The Disease** and Magic Hands

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Howells Transmitter

*It is fair to say fans of Akron/Family, early Beck, Animal Collective and Ariel Pink shouldn’t be disappointed
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Entry Filed under: Pop / Electro-Pop, Americana / Folk / Country