New Music: Fol Chen

The mysterious sounds of Fol Chen pulled me in and roughed me up a bit today.  Their new album, Part 1: John Shade, Your Fortune’s Made, comes out on February 17th on Asthmatic Kitty and it’s a doozy.  Fol Chen is an LA band that wraps it’s claws around sounds like Prince, Hot Chip, Pink Floyd, Gwen Stefani, Pere Ubu, Danielson Famile, Scritti Politti, Boards Of Canada, The Blow, and Pulp.  I know.  A bit all over the place ain’t it?  Well if it helps any, somehow every...

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