Fang Island make music for everyone, at least in their own minds. Music this infectious and open-armed may at first cause you to distrust what you're hearing, but trust me, these guys are as honest and direct as their music makes them out to be. The songs are loud and catchy, ringing out with a child-like naivete. These guys are kids with pop guns rounding up everyone for a game of Cowboys and Indians. They want everyone to play with them. The album begins with fireworks, literally, and the joyful cacophony which follows can keep a smile plastered on your face for hours. Tracks like "Daisy", with its' length jam-packed full of twists and turns, guitars blazing around a thumping drum beat, only serve to remind you of the joy which can be lacking, or worse, so badly managed on other albums that it comes off as patronizing. It's tempting to the casual listener to write Fang Island off as another disposable band, associating with party-hard sloganeering guy Andrew WK, but given time and the ability of the listener to let music be all-inclusive, Fang Island allows us all to be cowboys.
Tracklisting:
01. Dreams Of Dreams
02. Careful Crossers
03. Daisy (listen to the mp3 below)
04. Life Coach
05. Sideswiper
06. The Illinois
07. Treeton
08. Davey Crockett
09. Welcome Wagon
10. Dorian
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