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faux ferocious

Nashville, Tennessee, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2012 | INDIE

Nashville, Tennessee, United States | INDIE
Established on Jan, 2012
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"Nashville's Faux Ferocious release debut on Infinity Cat"

Nashville four-piece Faux Ferocious make nervy, anxious, mutant pop, the kind that sounds like sleep has not been a top priorty and you start to, ever-so-slightly, lose grip on reality. The band have a self-titled tape coming out on September 4 via the second annual Infinity Cat Cassette Series, curated by Casey Weissbuch. You can check out two tracks from it: the hyperactive "Nowhere to Go" and "Who I Became," the latter of which makes its premiere in this post. Listen below.

Faux Ferocious will be on tour in September, including dates with Natural Child and Dirty Fences. Most of that tour is of the West Coast and Southwest, and no NYC date unfortunately. But all dates are listed below. - Brooklyn Vegan


"Q&A: Faux Ferocious"

I noticed when Faux Ferocious sent back answers to our queries, at the very top they listed the full name and instrument of each member of the band (even though only two of the guys answered). Probably just being nice, but it pointed towards the unspoken fact that this new Nashville quartet are most definitely a band. In an era of every other act being a solo bedroom project first, recording second, and slap together a band to tour third, upon first listen to Faux Ferocious’s scrunchy, strutting trash-pop, you get the feeling these guys have slunk down on the couch after practice, five beers in, for at least a few years. You can feel that watching the live clip below, or when they play CMJ Music Marathon in October. - CMJ


"Faux Ferocious interview with Terry Kane, Dylan Palmer, Reid Cummings and Jonathan Phillips"

Every once in a while, I need to listen to some real good old fashioned garage rawk. Something fun, not overly complicated, but encompassing the mid-fi punkish, manic energy of my own life. Every once in a while I need something fun, something like Faux Ferocious. If you’ve ever heard a good band live you can really tell what a band’s made of that way, and Faux Ferocious’ recordings all sound like they’re live, so I have a real sense of appreciation for their stuff in that sense to begin with. The warts and all approach to recording is a difficult road to hoe and often one without accolade, but it’s an honest and intriguing one when travelled correctly. It’s extremely difficult to just slap a label on what Faux Ferocious is doing as well, they bring together all these really cool elements of psychedelic and classic rock, along with adding some cool surf-ish, light-hearted brevity to their music that’s a breath of fresh air to say the least. It’s not that Faux Ferocious doesn’t take themselves seriously, though, that’s not what mean that at all. What I mean is that their name is more than apt. They have this bubbling action and structure to their songs that seems so fluid and explosive, but they never degrade into an all out screaming fit for any length of time or crash and burn into an all out wall of noise of distortion, or anything. There’s a precise, intentional restraint apparent in the songs, an almost urgent sense of deliberateness which is a real testament to the band, as they don’t spend an inordinately long time working out structures for songs. Faux Ferocious has been self-recording and releasing their own music for a long while, masters of their own fate, but they’ve recently inked a deal with Much Records which is going to chronicle the band’s output through a series of 7-inch singles and will certainly ensure people learn the name Faux ferocious once and for all. Before things got to crazy for them though, I got in touch to talk all things Ferocious with all four founding members, and that’s just what we did. I won’t waste any more time with trying to describe or sell the band, as they’ll do that for themselves given your attention, so instead I’ll just urge you to read on below and remember, keep it psychedelic baby! - It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine


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