Are you running low on feel-good, summertime jams to bro-out with your bros to? Do you find your butt getting devastated on a daily basis? Are your high-fives not quite reaching their potential? Then Fang Island might be the band for you!
That previous paragraph (or shit, even the headline) may have caused a violent, Level 10 IMN Buttstorm of Pain in some of you. “Fang Island?! They are the filth of the ghey! Hipster bullshit etc. Rabble!” I love that a band so overwhelmingly positive can cause such a negative reaction. Don’t worry, once you’re not 19, you won’t care as much that someone else had a thought at some point in time. …Or you’ll still care and, fear not, your sweatpants, ponytail conditioner, MetalSucks login credentials, and Death discography are in the mail.
I stopped giving a shit what people thought of the music I liked (and more importantly, what I thought of the music that other people liked) a while ago. I’ve found that the harder a band tries to make you take them seriously, the harder it is to do just that. I want to listen to bands that make me feel good and who, themselves, look like they’re having a good time. I couldn’t give less of a fuck about some metal band who adopts the same philosophy as suburban, high school sports teams when it comes to their press photos: no smiling, look hard as fuck. I’m sorry, but you’re 40-something, probably have a mortgage/kids, and I can see your bald spot. You’re not evil, or heavy, or hard, you’re just some collection of shlubby dudes. The same goes with “indie” bands/punk or hardcore bands trying to take the Wayback Machine to the 1990’s. “Everyone stop smiling but try to look miserable in a cool way!”
Disregard other people’s opinions, acquire pizza parties.
So here’s the crash course. The Fang Island bros have some older stuff and it’s good and all but they didn’t become amazing till their self-titled album. The whole album is gold but I swear to fucking god there isn’t a more killer combo of songs than the first 5 tracks on this album. You could find out that cancer became flesh incarnate, grew the equivalent of the strap-on from the movie Seven, and then DP’ed your mom to death with that nightmare cock and your favorite childhood toy, and you’d still be smiling after hearing these 5 jams.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfiCqYuC4W8&version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0]
This song = You just beat every video game.
At the end of July, Fang Island released their newest album, Major. The album makes you feel like the only thing you have to do today is play Kid Chameleon, go do rad skateboard tricks with your friends behind the grocery store, and ingest way too much sugar. Every song on this album could very well have been a replacement song to go over the opening credits of The Adventures of Pete & Pete. Let me sell you on a few.
Sisterly:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGCWjKVUHkM&version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0]
This song would absolutely go over the opening credits of a coming-of-age film about summer camp where all the kids “learn about life, growing up and, maybe, per chance…love?”
Asunder:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5crIDUyoKI&version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0]
This is the sound of 100 pool parties starting at the same time.
Chompers:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3l1k7nRQtc&version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0]
You and your friends are taking the bike trail you made through the woods to the arcade cuz they just got that X-Men game in that let’s 6 people play at once!
The rest of the album is filled with smiletime jams, an album closer that could replace your friendzone anthem in your John Cusak Boombox, and a song that you could play at your job, during which, you would get shit DONE and occasionally lean back in your chair, lace your hands behind your head, and quietly nod to yourself while whispering: “fuck yes.” Check out Major. Check out their self-titled. They’re both on Spotify and on the Torrent Music Store. Come join me in the snuggliest giggle of a dream.
Call me a faggot here.
Get angry that I post pictures of my new puppy here.
Are u already down with The ‘Island? Did you solve ur Kid Chameleon game tape in one night? Do u have nightmares of someone doing bad things to ur mom with ur Starcom toys? Did u know Nick from Daughters used to be in Fang Island, does that make ur butt hurt even more? Do u wanna go to a pizza party with me?
Love this shit. It’s like getting a million high fives at once.
Shit dude, i love their s/t, need to put this one in my body as well. I love smiling too.
Disregard other people’s opinions, acquire pizza parties.
This advice cannot be stressed enough.
fux yea!
dat feel when you sold a shitload of chocolates to win dat pizza party at your elementary/middle school!!!
will have a mix of kickass pizzas like costco, la gigante (via la pizza loca), king cole’s pizza, PIZZA MAN pizza and of course SEE-PEE-MOFUCKIN’-KAY PIZZA… even digiorno will have a spot at this pizza party!!!
its a fucken pizza mashfest orgy motherfuckers… whos down ?
yes
I guess this gets thrown around here on SYWH pretty willy nilly, but you totally have the ability Jorbam. You are very good and lovely. I… I like you a whole lot.
Was listening to obscure Finnish death metal (Convulse if any of u fggts care) when I checked out this article. Did not regret pausing my iTunes. Sick jamz.
Although I’m kinda surprised that three dudes that look like they’re gonna Sandusky a coupla neighborhood youngins’ can write such touchy-feely/posi music.
Btw, no Simpsons Arcade no care. Legit spent $10 in quarters beating that game three times in one day
Yay a SYWH post about a band I already know & love. The S/t is one of my favs all time. I <3 hi5core.
Also, best singing-along musics. Especially Davey Crockette
SO posi, it sounds like masculine bro-hugs.
*tr00 pop punk girl voice* “I’m not sad anymore!!! :D”
i read that in my head in her voice and my heart melted
dat pete and pete n xmen jam are fucken tits!!
this is why i shood have more white friends.. dat zany gringo nfg bro-down positivity makes me wish i grew up in the suburbs n rode bmx bikes w/ those fat ass grinders n chit…
wood have arguments about which mountain dew flavor wood REALLY lower ur sperm count/10
brb rushin to finish my pizza first so I don’t get forced to use Dazzler.
“NO ONE BEATS THE BLOB”
Wood have had u as my token minorifriend/10
sweet!!!
will take this posish and milk it for all its worth/100
The guitarist of Daughters is in this? Sweet jams, batcard!
There was a lineup change between their s/t and Major. He and some other dudes left for whatever reason. They shrunk down to a 3-piece. Kinda sad as you can hear the effect of the absence of Nick. Apparently that dude had a big hand in the direction of the final Daughters album and you can totally see that “pop-grind-tech-dance” vibe bleed into Fang Island’s s/t. Major is new territory but I enjoy it, obviously.
cool story bro/10
Disregarding new Animal Collective, acquiring New Fang, thanks for introducing this band to me.
If I was a bull, the words Animal Collective would be my red cape.
Matadors wouldn’t ever fuck with you.
The corners of my mouth keep twisting upwards. Help!
Shhh, don’t let the internet find out!
Good stuff bruv, and “you just beat every video game” fucking dying here
Relevant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUA6vWLBn8k
No denying the jams.
The days of going to your buddy’s house and play Donkey Kong on the Super Nintendo has come back
Saw the Island in a little venue down the street from me in 2010 – Great time! Backed hard, they put on a good show. Fun jamz, no care
this shit is very tight. quite lovely.
I’m not normally big on recommendations from SYWH (via listening to almost solely shameful indie and coming here for the humour more than anything else) but this is an excellent one. Super-fun, THX YOU GUYS <3
“The Adventures of Pete & Pete”…such a good show.
If only to succumb to the Lazarus Slushy irl