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| Started up by two guys, this eventual quartet has cemented a sound rife with historical connections but uniquely customized into that "Fake Swedish Sound." These fellows draw on their inspirations but instead of simply paying tribute, they've honored the legends by kicking it up a notch. Their sound has clarity of vision and a musical structure that is found only in artists who put time, energy, sweat and blood into their creations. The listener can tell that the members of Fake Swedish craft their ensemble into a tight unit. Don't let this amazing talent go unnoticed. -IndieFocus Exclusive / 2004 |
| "working a 60s UK mod/psych thing...we're talking about Rock Music that remembers a time before the fateful pop/rock schism." -Ross Grady / Chapel Hill Music Scene |
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| from The Independent: Breaking Records by Chris Parker Joe Romeo doesn't sport mutton chops or bell-bottoms; he saves such telltale '60s throwbacks for his band Fake Swedish. The crisp, R & B bounce says Brit Invasion like those classic suits worn by the Beatles and Kinks, while the riffs-slathered in distortion-shimmy like a vertiginous hippy on acid before returning to the sonic fold. Asked for '60s influences, Romeo cites, "Love, The Yardbirds. I'm definately more in the psychedelic. I dig Pretty Things and the Nuggets set, but I like some of the more freaked out stuff like Can and Soft Machine, as well. "But the nature of everything I do is in light of my undying love of the Beatles," Romeo confesses. "I write the Beatles middle 8, I have the generic two-part thing and delve into the harmony middle 8 section. It comes mainly from the Beatles, though I do love the Hollies as well." Though the band has been together for two years, the friendship of Romeo and fellow guitarist Eric Haugen goes back to high school, when he met Haugen on a train from New Jersey into NYC for an Archers of Loaf / Pipe show at the legendary Tramps. Though they initially connected on their love of indie rock, they soon discovered their shared interest in '60s music "and Guided By Voices, which is the bridge between the two." It's fitting, then, that Fake Swedish's big break came opening for GBV on their farewell tour this fall. "It's been the pinnacle of our short career. That was the first time anyone took us seriously in town, because we got to play to 200 of them at once," Romeo reports. "I got wasted with (Robert) Pollard before the show. He said, 'You need to be more drunk' and kept feeding me beers. I asked, 'When is enough?' He said, 'When you puke.' I said, 'I'll puke after the show,' and he said, ' You need to puke before or during the show.'" The band is celebrating the release of their debut LP, Get Correct, on Demonbeach Records this week. MORE |
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| "we are a band that focuses mostly on songs, but we are also not afraid to dive head-first into pyschedelic improv jams. we enjoy flying by the seat of our pants onstage, and we tend to draw comparisons to late 60's psychedelic rock. that's ok with us." -from indy music guide vol. II |
| "There's no need to truck off to Montreal or Athens when we've got bands as good as Fake Swedish right here at home. "Get Correct" (Demonbeach Records), the Carrboro band's new album, is garage rock of the sort you've heard many times over the years (although Steppenwolf's John Kay, the primal vocal model for Fake Swedish singer Joe Romeo, ain't exactly the most common influence nowadays). But Fake Swedish does it with enough style, flair and freshness to raise itself well above the pack. There are three more great songs where "Get Correct" came from at www.fakeswedish.4t.com." -David Menconi on the best rock and more / News & Observer |
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| from The Independent Weekly: Homebrew by Grayson Currin "For a second, imagine that Fake Swedish's debut Get Correct is a certifiable psychedelic session lost in an attic since the '70s, recorded in a garage to reel-to-reel by four fellows now sporting beer bellies, gray 'staches and nametags at 9-5s that remind them of the good ol' days of loud amps, hard hallucinogenics and cheap beer. Then picture the band itself - vocalist Joe Romeo and guitarist Eric Haugen with the rhythm section of Ashley Hayes and Dave Perry setting a charge in the background - as those young guys, working service jobs and trying to make it. Now, picture in mind, actually listen to Fake Swedish. Not much difference, eh? Get Correct is its own Nuggets box, showcasing an eclectic, wide-open approach to inborn guitar fuzz and swelling, surrounding and subsuming howls, bathed in the effrontery of Romeo's dead-on songwriting. "Pilgrims" takes a sick, twisted Meat Puppets country-death groove down swirling 13th Floor Elevators, spiraling into a demon-ridden guitar convulsion and falling gently to a south-of-the-border-tinged take on Jacques Brel's "Jacky." The title track moans like a busted pride Jack White, floating through sublime guitar howls and expert pitter-and-pause percussion, but the chug-along, thrash about "Beef Trigger" connects the parts hook, line and sinker here. Romeo's boppy chants come backed with drinkin'-buddy choruses, call-and-response banter and one exorcising howl, setting the stage for a mammoth solo - doubled in sparring style by Haugen - by Romeo. Get Correct." |
| FAKE SWEDISH The INDEPENDENT WEEKLY'S MAY 2005 BAND OF THE MONTH! |
| just a few of FS's past shows: July 15 @ The Cave, Chapel Hill, NC July 22 @ Court Tavern, New Brunswick, NJ July 23 @ North Six Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY July 24 @ The Khyber, Philadelphia August 14 @ Local 506, Chapel Hill, NC October 1 @ Local 506, Chapel Hill w/ A fir-ju-well & jule brown October 22 @ King's Barcade, Raleigh w/ the cartridge family October 28 @ Green Dolphin Grille, Roanoke, VA w/ the lobsters October 29 @ Local 506, Chapel Hill, NC w/ the spinns |
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