Pitchfork TV and Forkcast premiere Brooklyn DIY faves Fiasco's video for their first single "Oh You Horny Monster" from the forthcoming Native Canadian's on Impose Records!They're not out of high school but they've already been through the press circus. They've never gone on a major tour but their Brooklyn shows at d.i.y. spaces still hit overflow capacity. You could blame it on the hype, but Fiasco never would've left their parent's basement if these kids were just another garage band.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Jonathan Edelstein (guitar / vocals), Lucian Buscemi (bass / vocals) and Julian Bennett Holmes (drums) hit a universal nerve in the noise rock continuum; it's a sonic sweet spot that's apparently everything for everyone. Impose Records signed them "because we loved the hardcore influences of the early 90s they recall - and were born in."
The trio formed in 2005 at the tender age of 14 and by 2007 were self releasing their own records. Fiasco also play regularly throughout the tri-state area with their d.i.y. brethren - 2008 alone has seen them share the stage with No Age, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, High Places, Pony Tail, Parts & Labor, Kimya Dawson, Aa, Yacht and label mates Team Robespierre, to name a few.
Having just finished recording in their basement (mastered by Josh Bonati of Aa), Fiasco will release their instrumental sophomore record, Native Canadians, in a special vinyl CD packaging. The spastic anthems that recall their heavy rock antecedents are fully present, but Canadians also showcases their technical prowess and instinctual sense of melody and arrangement. It's an early collector's classic for a band burning with possibility and currently blowing up.
Spin: "Incendiary guitar work, drum thrashing and perceptive lyrics... echo everyone from a hormone-drenched Sonic Youth to a youthful-sounding Slint. Standout "Nothing to Lose" trods on classic indie rock aesthetic a la Pavement... proving that punk rock and teenage boys go together like PB & J."
Insound: "These three NYC teens are creating ferocious punk with completely tight time signatures that sounds well beyond their years. Sonic Youth meets Shellac meets Lightning Bolt meets awesome. They destroy live too!"
Pitchfork: "Dizzying colors mix with dizzying, combustible guitars-- and plenty more fake blood....like the Ventures covering Rachmaninoff, Fiasco let their guitars buzz and sting, although the drums are more mathematically precise, and the whole thing is more inclined toward herky-jerk tempo changes and volatile outbursts. Director Carlos Charlie Perez concentrates on colorful comic-book graphics and some blood-spattered, motionless dudes, and he also gives us glimpses of a couple of familiar comic-book heroes. If this makes your monster horny, do a better job chaining him under the bed."
Click here to check out "Oh You Horny Monster"
The local power trio has just warmed (torn up) stages in a string of dates with Deerhunter, The Apes, Ninjasonik, The Homosexuals and Pony Pants during their August tour.
Click here for CMJ Silent Barn Live Review
After selling out two pressings of their full length debut, God Loves Fiasco, on their own imprint Beautiful Records, Fiasco release their rapid-fire gem Native Canadians on Impose Records on October 21st.
Fall Tour Dates:
9.5- Death by Audio w/ Crime Novels, Alex & the Horribles-Brooklyn
9.6- Showpaper Benefit @ Howl Fest w/ No One & The Somebodies, Sediment Club, The Crayons – NYC
9.20- Greenpoint Gallery w/ Sigmund Droid, Snakes Say Hiss- Brooklyn,
10.2 - Death By Audio w/ Shearing Pinx - Brooklyn
10.18 – Fanclub with White Mice- Ithaca, New York
10.24- Panache CMJ Showcase @ Knitting Factory w/ Mae Shi, DMBQ, The Apes, Monotonix, An Albatross, New York, New York
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