Tonight, I decided to have some fun, sip on some Lillet and revisit fun Fancy-related times. So, of course, I had to rewatch Muscle Top, the hilarious show Clara and I made with the one-of-a-kind director, Ry Russo-Young.
Check out this awesome interview and watch the pilot episodes!
Ep 1
“Muscle Top” Webisode #1 from PAPER Magazine on Vimeo.
Ep 2
“Muscle Top” Webisode #2 from PAPER Magazine on Vimeo.
Ep 3
“Muscle Top” Webisode #3 from PAPER Magazine on Vimeo.
Live at The Rock Shop in Brooklyn, NY
Our first video for the 2010 self-titled EP — IN CASE YOU MISSED IT!
Directed by Ry Russo-Young
“Pianist Seth Garrison and guitarist Clara Latham’s vocals
come through as pristine and tender as could be.”
— the onion av club
“An upbeat NYC four-piece…with sunny harmonies…”
— timeout chicago
On their debut full-length, DON’T WAIT UP, Brooklyn quartet THE FANCY construct a sophisticated and captivating vision of chamber-pop, utilizing an elegantly simple orchestration of guitar, keyboards, viola and bassoon. The band is comprised of four veteran composer-performers: Clara Latham (frankie rose, starring), Seth Garrison (seth sugar, the sun beats down), Amy Cimini (till by turning, christy & emily), and Katherine Young (pretty monsters, the nightingales), who together discover and deconstruct the intersections between indie-rock, folk, dance-pop and new classical, seamlessly shifting from triumphant four-to-the-floor, singalong anthems to melancholic, thickly-layered noise, and back again. Drawing comparisons to Andrew Bird and Final Fantasy, THE FANCY emphasize melody and texture just as easily as freeform instrumental collage.
DON’T WAIT UP occupies a space between desire and satisfaction, love both passionate and unrequited, with cheeky but resonant lyrics and a unified yet diverse sonic world that employs timeless duet vocals and intricately layered instrumentation, both acoustic and electronic. Garrison’s sonorous reflections on a lost love affair in “There’s Nothing to Talk About” culminate in Cimini’s shrieking viola clamor and Young’s unsettling bassoon agitations. “Rained Out” begins as an atmospheric sound collage only to ignite a dance-party-ready anthem propelled by Garrison’s synth beats and Latham’s chugging electric guitar. The deceptively sunny doo-wop inflection of “Ortolan” tells a surprisingly dark tale of decadent eroticism, while Latham and Garrison’s voices radiate warmth and optimism on “This Land is Your Land,” an elegy for life in New York, cautioning “don’t be surprised if I fall out of love with you.”
Recorded in various Brooklyn locations in the fall of 2010, and mixed and mastered by Allen Farmelo (the cinematic orchestra, the loom, sea of bees), DON’T WAIT UP is a delectable and unforgettable pop confection, ready to meet the world.
THE FANCY has steadily built a live following in Brooklyn, sharing bills with Kathleen Hanna, Kim Gordon, Corey Dargel, Anni Rossi, Schwervon, Pterodactyl, John Ginoli, and The Lisps. In the last two years, THE FANCY has toured the Midwest and Northeast, and will tour the West Coast in Spring 2012.
We’ve recently posted some new material (including Don’t Wait Up, the new full-length) on Soundcloud.
photo by ry
Check out our rad friend’s demo reel! I did the music for it.
Reel from Ry Russo-Young on Vimeo.
Love, Seth Sugar
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Very special thanks to Earl Dax for putting this on. We can’t begin to tell you how excited we are.
