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So what is the deal with the past few bands I've been listening to being unable to buy a pack of smokes and calling it quits on their current projects?! Fruit Sand , abrasive noise rock from some Oakland household shares some obvious similarities with CA neighbors Abe Vigoda and No Age . Despite the variety of noises and instruments that are laden throughout Carter Mullen's tunes, he is a one man GarageBand sideshow. He even admits to using the Wavves method of adding distortion a la the same program. The Renaissance, [...]
Fruit Sand - Oakland That's right guys, flippin' sweet new banner thanks to Greedy Hen and isn't this new roll of fuzz from Fruit Sand (great name huh?) just as filled with rainbows? Kind of hard to hear them under the distortion and there's a hint of that bad kid from school who had the Oakland raiders jumper and said his uncle owned a tank, but these guys are actually from Oakland and basically play pure condensed colour melody sort of ala Wavves or No Age but maybe more like The Hospitals. Also, check that track [...]