Stream: Francisco the Man, ‘It’s Not Your Fault’
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Francisco the Man’s “Loose Ends” (out next week via Fat Possum/Small Plates) is quite possibly the longest-incubating debut album in recent memory – after all, singer-guitarist Scotty Cantino and gang have knocked around southern California for at least six years, watching bands and styles of facial hair come and go, sticking resolutely to the notion that there is some sort of deliverance in indie-rock. Cantino, with bassist Néstor Romero, guitarist-keyboardist Brock Woolsey and drummer Abdeel Ortega – has made an album that speaks to that higher power. With its blaring, shoegazing guitars and bellowed ambitions (see “Big Ideas” and “Progress”), “Loose Ends” is a long-player that plays to the both the cerebral and visceral, not a common trait in this era of bands and facial hair. That it took so long to materialize? It’s not their fault.
||| Stream: “It’s Not Your Fault”
||| Also: Stream the whole album here.
||| Live: Francisco the Man celebrate their album release with a show Saturday night at the Bootleg.
||| Previously: “Big Ideas,” “Progress,” “In the Corners,” “Tiger,” “Broken Arrows”
[…] “Loose Ends†is quite possibly the longest-incubating debut album in recent memory – after all, singer-guitarist Scotty Cantino and gang have knocked around southern California for at least six years, watching bands and styles of facial hair come and go, sticking resolutely to the notion that there is some sort of deliverance in indie-rock. Cantino, with bassist Néstor Romero, guitarist-keyboardist Brock Woolsey and drummer Abdeel Ortega – has made an album that speaks to that higher power. With its blaring, shoegazing guitars and bellowed ambitions (see “Big Ideas†and “Progressâ€), “Loose Ends†is a long-player that plays to the both the cerebral and visceral, not a common trait in this era of bands and facial hair. That it took so long to materialize? It’s not their fault. – Buzz Bands LA […]