The Fresh & Onlys
Secret Walls
Sacred Bones
2011
Rating: 7 sliding glass doors out of 10
Maybe it's me getting older, but I really love the path The Fresh & Onlys have taken, from jangly garage pop band to their current state of mature pop with the slightest hint of western twang...and I say that as a lover of jangly garage pop. It's just that there aren't many bands out there playing this sort of music, much less doing it as well as the F&Os are doing it right now. If their debut album was akin to early Kinks or some of the Nuggets bands, this EP comes in wearing more of a Zombies guise, only sung in a much deeper voice. It vaguely psychedelic in places, and a hair dark (I'm no musician but I think a lot of minor chords are getting played here), but mostly this is a nice set of five pop songs clocking in at under twenty minutes that is well worth searching out. The track "Wash Over Us" is particularly good, and recommended.
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