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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Big Fresh is coming |
| Date | Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:17:20 -0400 |
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Just wrote this up for work, and there are folks here who are going to
absolutely love this album. Check out www.myspace.com/bigfresh for
more.
Apples In Stereo leader Robert Schneider has founded a new label,
Garden Gate Records, and its first release is the second album by Big
Fresh, a psych-pop outfit from Schneider's adopted hometown of
Lexington, Kentucky. It's something of a family affair, in fact: Big
Fresh leader John Ferguson is a part-time Apple, and he and
keyboardist Ben Fulton also play in Schneider's rockier side-project
Ulysses.
Coming nearly a full eight years after Big Fresh's 2001 debut Yes,
Nice, Please, Thanks, the new album BFF (it stands for Big Fresh
Forever) sounds like they've been working on it all that time: every
nook and cranny of first single "WLUV" (one of several songs streaming
from the band's Myspace page) is filled with the sort of ear-grabbing
sounds that mark the band as students of the XTC/Jellyfish wing of
pop. Ferguson is actually a second-generation master of this sort of
thing: his dad Roger Ferguson was an early musical partner of northern
New Jersey's DIY legend R. Stevie Moore, appearing on many of the 300+
tapes and CD-rs Moore has recorded over the last 40+ years. (Later
this year, Garden Gate plans to reissue Herald, Goods, an early-'70s
effort by one of Moore and Ferguson's bands.) BFF will be released on
April 21.
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