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The Old Haunts Fallow Field music review
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The Old Haunts Fallow Field
Kill Rock Stars
It's as if the late 50's rockabilly and the early-to-mid 60's mellowed
music
were fused together. The Old Haunts, releasing Fallow Field (Kill Rock
Stars, 2005), are bringing that sound to fruition, combining the two
eras
and carefully adding a basement band feel to the mix.
Track listing:
01 By The Bay
02 Walk Through The Woods
03 Deflect It
04 Poison Control
05 Boots As Clubs
06 It's So Scandalous
07 Old World, The
08 Gold Lilght
09 Cult Baby
10 You Could Never Know
11 Out Of Sight
12 Vandal Hymn
The Olympia, Washington trio is Craig Extine (vocals, guitar), Scott
Seckington (bass, keyboards) and Danny Sasaki (drums) with additional
drummers Natalie Cox and Chris Sutton on select tracks.
Energetic garage rock voiced by a Jack White throatiness, collided with
a
swinging 60's jam piece and ragged guitars bring in 'By The Bay', the
album's intro. This is the take-it-or-leave-it deal: If you don't like
the
band's groove by the first track, then you won't anytime afterwards.
The
album continues on like this until the very end, leaving you with a
heightened buzz-sense of appreciation for this new genre.
There's even a little country twang spice on one of the tracks, 'Walk
Through The Woods', where the strings are teased and pulled to create a
jangly, looser sound. Those wavering vocals are back again, and it's
enough
to make you want to grab someone to dance with.
Something new appears in 'Cult Baby' -- seemingly there are two guitars
that
are playing off of each other's strums as vocalized harmonics would,
creating a new term altogether, guitarmonics, if you will. This is
creativity put to work. This new idea alone sets the band apart from
the
rest -- unique and innovative, this could very well be their defining
sound.
There's nothing more to it. Powerful drumming, fuzz box basslines and
rough-and-tumble diddies worthy of repeating. Their music is concise,
cheerful and an absolute great transition piece from two great eras.
The Old
Haunts are not only new to the music scene (having risen from their
neighbour's basements) but they have generated a new sound. And a new
playing scheme. Now is the time to appreciate the past, and this band
couldn't have done it better. Buy the album, and have a dance partner
ready.
