Fang Island: Major – review

(Sargent House)"Everyone high-fiving everyone" was how Brooklyn trio Fang Island described their 2010 debut, and the same sense of gleeful abandon drives its follow-up. Hats off, for starters, for the volume of big-haired soloing on display here; foot-on-monitor instrumental Chompers consists of little else, while Dooney Rock makes an unlikely success of electric bluegrass. But Major isn't the hipster pastiche that might lead you to suspect; much of this record deals in warm West Coast pop, its ...

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