
Fol Chen describe themselves as "that mysterious black object that the creepy family is staring at on the cover of Led Zeppelin's 'Presence' album". I describe them as exciting, theatrical, and extremely catchy, like a pop super group formed out of unused children's instruments, tinker toys, robotic limbs, and a paper maché heart. Their music has a huggability and quirkiness to it like an overloved teddy bear missing a limb. Their debut album "John Shade: Your Fortune's Made" starts out with a beat that Radiohead might have made if they were trapped in a ball pit. The [...]