There are some elements of snotty indie garage in The Fags’ sound – raw edges, loud volumes, and of course, the kind of cheek that leads you to name your band “The Fags” – but, ultimately, the music on this Detroit trio’s debut EP is power pop pure a [+]There are some elements of snotty indie garage in The Fags’ sound – raw edges, loud volumes, and of course, the kind of cheek that leads you to name your band “The Fags” – but, ultimately, the music on this Detroit trio’s debut EP is power pop pure and simple. The harmonies are pleasing, the hairpin turns of phrase clever, the hooks insistent, the chord changes both brainy and intuitive. If it wasn’t for the cranked amps and the fuzzed out vocals, you’d almost, at times think they were Cheap Trick. Which is obviously what they want – these Fags have studied long and hard in the school of power pop, figuring out the changes, vocal intervals, and chord voicings that make it what it is and applying them, thoroughly and cleverly, to music that aches for it to be 1978 again.
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