Early & Often - No Fiction
Taken from the Present, No Fiction, Fear No Tense EP, No Fiction is an awesome tune. The intensity is getting higher and higher, so is the melodic range. Very dense tune. Early & Often offers that EP as a free download, just listen to it and you’ll be convinced by their music!
Sacramento’s Early & Often can be summed up as a marriage of jagged industrial hiss and spacious guitar-driven post-rock. But don’t let the simplification underwhelm you — these four young musicians know how to make sounds come together. That’s exactly what they do on their debut release, Present No Fiction, Fear No Tense.
– via Verbicide Magazine (click to read more)With the help of immaculate production, their ambitious use of layers of instrumentation crafts intricate build-ups that don’t lean too heavily on the typical guitar-based structures. The culmination of the vocals and the instrumentation is best exemplified in opener “Under The Phase”, which, after a rather pointless three-minute-plus audio sample, utilizes minimalistic instrumental work and crooning vocals to build tension, before erupting in a wall of guitar-noise and the strained cries of Wright. Moments like that, of such raw emotion following a finely-detailed composition, are rare in post-rock especially, and it’s worth every second of the nine-minutes it takes to arrive.
– via rockfreaks.netForward
First and foremost, I speak on behalf of the entire band when I say THANK YOU for coming out to the past two weeks of shows. We had a great time, your response was spectacular and we’re excited for the next touring stint.
Personal thanks to:
Dan at Cafe Coda, Urslula at Bottom Of The Hill, Mark Leahey of On The Tundra, John Backstrom at The Space, Alex Ayers at Lent’s Commons, Nicholas Wolch, Build Us Airplanes, Dylan Andersen (First guy to buy me a legal drink!), Master Sultan, Matthew Nielsen and his family, Wandering Goat Coffee, Teenage Sweater, Donovan of Hail The Sun, Horse Fight, Christian Lady Killers, St. Ranger (luv u boo), Tom of Filardo, Will Wheaton, Playboy, Chris Lemos of Caulfield, Paul Slack, Kelsey of The Tin Can Alehouse, and of course last but most certainly not least Andy Pohl of Sell The Heart Records.
We may have missed some of you in this post, but surely you are not absent in our thoughts.
Next, we’re going to take a bit of time to put ourselves back together. We’ll be working on new music and getting everything in place to become active again for the next couple of months. See you soon.
Jeff
