MP3: Fool’s Gold – “Surprise Hotel”
Posted: June 23, 2009 Filed under: MP3, New Releases | Tags: Fool's Gold 1 Comment »The tropical rhythms just keep coming and coming… The latest, with an African flavor, are from Fool’s Gold, an LA band who traffic in the same exotica made popular by bands like Abe Vigoda and Vampire Weekend. The guitars are legit and the recording superb on “Surprise Hotel” (download here), but the singing is kind of weak. And it’s hard to shake the feeling that Luke Top and Lewis Pesacov aren’t kind of jumping on the band wagon…
The new album is due out 9/29 on Iamsound.
No bandwagon jumping bro. These dudes have been playing this stuff for years. I recorded Luke with his old band, the Cave Ins (aka Ceramic Isles). The band also featured Matt Popeiluch of Foreign Born fame.
xo
marc