For such a young band charging out of the New York City music scene, Finding Fiction feels like old friends here in the Circle City.
Playing at Birdys September 23rd, the band has entertained this city almost half a dozen times. Bassist Tim Farr compliments on how accepting the Midwest and especially the city of Indianapolis [...]
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
You Can’t Take It With You builds a bond between the humanistic nature of the group and one exceptional studio recording.
After listening to an album like Technicolor Health (Gigantic Music), the band’s self-titled EP seems like dress rehearsal. The band makes no qualms at pulling out all of the stops. From orchestrated horns, to sporadic found sounds, to general upbeat pop-style reflections, the band treats their debut full length like a musical to their own [...]
There is a degree of poetic justice that comes from the song “Please Send Love.” It’s a song that defines a post-modern sexual revolution, like art house sterility in a dirty mid-town environment.
Even though William Parker has had some well-acclaimed releases in the jazz field (Piercing The Veil, Mayor of Punkville, and Peach Orchard), the Thirsty Ear label is highly responsible for shoving the jazz bassist out into the mainstream as much as allowing him free range to continue expanding his thoughts into sound. Joining the label as part of the Blue Series, which still exists as an entity to this day, William Parker brought his sometimes moody and often times eclectic jazz compositions to the forefront of the series with two prominent releases (Painter’s Spring was the other).
