As you may know Denton, Texas’ Fishboy very dear to me. Their twee rock opera Albatross: How We Failed To Save The Lone Star State With The Power Of Rock And Roll was an epic smile maker around these parts and had a title that was a hand cramp waiting to happen. Judging from the mass amount of articles I’ve seen, it seems the blogworld agrees. Front-man Eric Michener decided to seriously mix it up for his next release, the Nom EP. He wanted a new sound – so much so he recorded vocals and scratch acoustic guitars then passed the tracks onto another local Denton band The Om Nom Noms. The guitar track was deleted and the ONN were given a blank slate with which to work their magic. They went to town and produced quite an extraordinary recording completely redesigning the face of each song, yet still they have the air of Fishboy. It’s nice when a concept like this works out so well…
So now my only question is how will these songs sound live when the original Fishboy band hits the road. Only one way to find out I guess (check the dates after the jump)
mp3: Fishboy – Larger Than Before
Listen to more of the EP and some older stuff at their muxtape page here.
(*dates with IJI and Watercolor Paintings)
*08.15.09 Denton, TX Haileys
*08.16.09 Austin, TX Hole in the Wall (with Pataphysics)
*08.17.09 Houston, TX Super Happy Fun Land
*08.18.09 Tulsa, OK 1208 S. Jamestown Ave. House
*08.19.09 Albuquerque, NM Cirque Gallery
*08.20.09 Tuscon, AZ Dry River Space (with Andrew Jackson Jihad)
*08.21.09 Phoenix, AZ Trunk Space
*08.22.09 San Diego, CA Maple Street House
*08.23.09 Los Angeles, CA Echo Curio (early)
*08.24.09 Santa Barbera, Ca Biko Garage
*08.25.09 Fresno, CA TBA
*08.26.09 Santa Cruz, CA TBA (with James Rabbit)
*08.27.09 Bay Area, CA Speak Easy (with Half-handed Cloud)
*08.28.09 Davis, CA TBA
*08.29.09 Portland, OR TBA
08.30.09 Seattle, WA Vera Project
08.31.09 Olympia, WA TBA
09.02.09 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court (with Awful Truth, Forrest World)
09.03.09 Denver, Co TBA (with Pacific Pride)
09.04.09 Lawrence, KS Replay Lounge
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Listen to more Fishboy on: The Hype Machine | ElbowsBuy music by Fishboy from: Amazon
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