Franky
Flowers is a fuzzy garage sometimes surf sounding band that can bring to mind
easy references of Superdrag, Green Day and even Phantom Planet on some of
their dreamier numbers. It’s also that
mix of seriousness and fun that I feel makes this cassette that much better
than what you can come to think of as typical garage rock.
On
the third song on the first side, which is also the third song overall, there
is a bit of fun coming out that reminds me of somewhere between Digger and The
Mr. T Experience. Mainly because I don’t
feel as if current bands that can sound like them can live up to their legacy,
I am always pleased to hear bits of MTX in bands as good as Franky
Flowers. It’s kind of like the cliché of
icing on the cake, as opposed to the entire cake being made out of icing and
thus resulting in an upset stomach.
It’s
also worth noting that this is a few months shy of the end of October, yet there
is still a song on here about Halloween.
There probably is no real appropriate time to release a song about
Halloween because it’s not quite the same as Christmas music, but this cassette
and song has now made me wonder why people don’t release compilations or entire
albums of music dedicated to Halloween in the month of October. Who wants to start it?
There
exists a fairly fine line between what is thought of as a serious sort of
garage-fuzz band and one that has a sense of humor. I won’t name any bands by name simply because
I tend not to listen to/ignore those who take themselves too seriously, but Franky
Flowers has managed to tow the line perfectly in the sense that you can tell
this music isn’t just goofing around for them, but also it’s just a whole lot
of fun to listen to nonetheless.
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