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words & photos by Benjamin Lozovsky w/ additional photos by Leia Jospe
Fang Island lock on with their jaws and don't relent. The Brooklyn band never gave up its hold on an enthusiastic audience at their sold out show at the Brooklyn Knitting Factory Monday night. Fang Island evade outright comparisons with an enticing mix of textured guitar polyphonics, uplifting vocal harmonies and mosh-worthy tumult. For their encore the band played a groovy cover of Mariah Carey's "Always Be My Baby," obviously for the many people over time who have wondered what that song might sound like with triple harmonized lead guitars mimicking the melody.
Idolands and Anamanaguchi opened the show. Anamanaguchi flaunted an equal love of fallen electronics and Blink 182 (already apparent, they highlighted their influence even more by momentarily flirting with the riff from "Dammit"), spitting gleefully acrid 8-bit melodies on top of Marshall stack guitars and matter-of-fact power pop.
More Fang Island dates HERE. More pictures from the show below...
Idolands
Anamanaguchi (by Leia Jospe)
Anamanaguchi (by Ben Lozovsky)
Fang Island
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these douche bags are news? fucking godspeed are touring again...get with the program chief. one of the greatest bands ever is playing again...jeepers
Posted by Anonymous | April 8, 2010 9:34 PM
not douche bags. Great band.
Posted by Anonymous | April 8, 2010 9:39 PM
try yes...tried listening to them...wow allmusic review was funny...awk meets surfer blood...wtf....that sounds awful...then to actually listen to it...wow...give me my godspeed reunion anyday over this crap. let me guess you are the same dude stoked for the freelance whales pre show free show.....
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2010 1:50 AM
That crowd on the last Fang lost Island looks pretty normal like they just came from Midtown.
Anyway whats this about God speed you Black emperor playing?
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2010 2:04 AM
yeah, actually. yeah. info about gy!be please?
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2010 2:12 AM
GY!BE is curating that ATP night before Christmas think in the UK..they wrote a little blurb about it. They're playing that, doing a UK/Europe tour, and then 9 US dates. Not sure what's happening beyond that, but I'm fucking stoked.
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2010 2:19 AM
Yeah, Bitchfork already leaked the GY!BE goods. I love Brooklynvegan, so i'll let it slide. Plus, i'm really only familiar with F#A#∞
Posted by Ray | April 9, 2010 2:28 AM
Godspeed tour??!! YES!!!!
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2010 3:23 AM
I saw Godspeed a few years ago in willHallMusic and got kicked out! I am cool.
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2010 4:34 AM
Um try listening to Fang Island's album... it's epic
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2010 7:39 AM
Look, it's not big, and it's not clever.
Posted by Susan Kennedy | April 9, 2010 7:46 AM
Hey, here's a surprise: someone on the internet insulting something they don't like!
People can have likes other than yours, my friend. Fang Island plays their ass off and lots of people enjoy their music, just cuz you only like something if it's 30 minutes long and has apocalyptic samples of crazy people talking, doesn't mean FI are d-bags;)
Posted by Derrick B | April 9, 2010 8:20 AM
There is little more to be said than that, fang island achieves that straight cheese power rock and places it in our generation. Takes something that has been done and gives it a new spin. Listen to the album before you blindly admonish a band for which you have little to no knowledge of.
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2010 11:09 AM
lets see who we will still talking about 20 years from now...fag island or godspeedyoublackemperor....hell i give fag island an expiration date of 2 months
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2010 2:13 PM
yeah- too bad there was no brooklynvegan back when godspeed was getting started- just IMAGINE the shit we could've talked about them!
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2010 7:29 PM
-also... fag island? c'mon! what is this? middle school? FAD ISLAND is at least a little more tasteful
Posted by Anonymous | April 9, 2010 7:30 PM
Wow, what a bunch of pissy comments. Don't like a review about a band that you're not fond of? Here's an idea: how about you don't read it?
Posted by Anonymous | April 10, 2010 8:56 PM