Blog: Buzz Bands

Fol Chen , "Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made" (today, Asthmatic Kitty) — As with his previous project Bedroom Walls and its self-christened genre appellation "romanticore," Adam Goldman remains just as much about creating mythos as music. Oh, he's still twee as heck, and every bit the art-schooler, only cleverer now. He goes by Samuel Bing, doesn't take band photos (he has worn masks onstage), spins his thematic material off a character from Vladimir Nabokov's intractable novel "Pale Fire" and chooses instrumentation like a collagist in a thrift store. As constructs go, Fol Chen is [...]