FAUX JEAN
Nature (Susstones)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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Cool Minnesota-based band that combines psychedelic-era girl-and-boy harmonies and cheesy synth washes with beach-blanket-bingo guitar lines and the occasional country-and-western twang. There's even some secret-spy-type music that really sounds like something from bad '70s Italian cinema. They're beautifully goofy, and would sound impossibly young doing this even if they were in their fifties. It's definitely not high art, and there's not a lot of new territory being covered here, but c'mon! It's so fun to listen to and pretend to know how to dance to (I suggest trying that spastic dance Gidget and her friends used to break into without provocation), it's worth any grumbles one might hear about "it's all been done before."

© 2003 - Holly Day