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Artist: Xu Xu Fang
Album: Seven Days Now
Label: Self-Released
Playtime: 29:19 min
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
URL:
Rip date: 2009-04-29
Street date: 2009-04-28
Size: 41.78 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 193 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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Mar Vista, CaliforniaÆs latest contribution to contemporary music and equine
enthusiasm is LA Weekly Music Award winning band Xu Xu Fang. Not to be
confused with 17th century Chinese artist Xu Fang, Xu Xu Fang is a
dark-and-brooding, slow-and-rolling musical experience like something youÆd
hear at a Laserium show or listen to on big headphones in the back of a
conversion van.
Xu Xu Fang, featuring Bobby Tamkin, formerly of sonically complex bands The
Warlocks and Hovercraft, has anywhere from six to ten members and up to four
guitars, creating a layered, psychedelic sound you would expect to hear
emanating from a wooded bungalow in Laurel Canyon circa 1972. The rainy
sounds of Xu Xu Fang echo early Black Sabbath with whispery vocals that tend
toward Elliott Smith and My Bloody Valentine.
Hailed as ôlocal innovators,ö by the Los Angeles Times, Xu Xu Fang has been
around in fits and starts since 2001, when they released the curiously titled
record, Los Angeles During The Winter of Æ99. Alternative Press rated the
bandÆs album 4 out of 5 stars, calling their live performance, ôOutstanding!ö
The LA Weekly described the group as a ôKnockout Act!ö
Xu Xu Fang recently released, The Mourning Son CD/EP. The Mourning Son
received 8 out of 10 stars at Pop Matters, and placed Xu Xu Fang in the
Myspace Music Spotlight. Liam Gowing, City Editor of The Onion, describes Xu
Xu Fang as, ôEnormous, dark, psychedelic, and beautiful, full of meditative
moods that haunt the diaphanous triangle formed by Pink Floyd, Radiohead, and
Sigur Ros.ö
7 Days Now, mixed by Mark Needham (Fleetwood Mac, The Killers) continues Xu
Xu FangÆs tradition of heavy tunes and space-like ambience. Xu Xu Fang
opened the Los Angeles date of the recent Swervedriver reunion tour, and
appear along side Bat For Lashes and The Dandy Warhols on Perfect as Cats: A
Tribute to the Cure.
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Fascination Street ( 5:49)
02. Seven Days Now ( 4:38)
03. Your Way ( 3:28)
04. Underground ( 4:35)
05. Where Is Everybody (10:49)
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