Fake Names
Fake Names
Punk rock supergroup – with Brian Baker (Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Bad Religion), Michael Hampton (S.O.A., Embrace, One Last Wish), Dennis Lyxzén (Refused, International Noise Conspiracy, INVSN), and Johnny Temple (Girls Against Boys, Soulside).Limitiertes Indie-Vinyl in hot pink! Neue transkontinentale Allstarband bestehend aus Refused/International Noise Conspiracy-Frontmann Dennis Lyxzén, Brian Baker (Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, Bad Religion), Mike Hampton (S.O.A., Embrace, One Last Wish) und Johnny Temple (Soulside, Girls Against Boys), also quasi eine Washington DC/Dischord-Allstarband plus den unvermeidlichen Schweden. Letzerer zappelt wie zu erwarten als Sänger herum, während die drei älteren Herren für den entsprechenden DC-Nostalgie-Trip sorgen, musikalisch bewegt man sich ganz klar in 80er-Dischord Fahrwasser, was die drei natürlich entsprechend hervorragend beherrschen. Am ehesten erinnert´s an die erste Dag Nasty, dazu etwas Powerpop-Feel wie spätere Gray Matter, dazu die unverwechselbaren Vocals von Lyxzén, fertig sind 10 Songs/28 Minuten die einigen Szenequittern die Tränen in die Augen treiben werden. Sehr unerwartetes Projekt, aber für Fans genannter Bands sicher keine Enttäuschung.
Fake Names first came to form in early 2016 when Brian Baker and Michael Hampton met up at Hampton’s Brooklyn home to play music together, with no intentions beyond possibly writing a song or two. Friends since first grade, the two guitarists ended up writing a handful of songs that day, and then closed out the session with a spontaneous decision to start a band. When it came to finding a bassist, Baker and Hampton looked to Johnny Temple, a fellow classmate from their elementary school. Later that year at Chicago’s Riot Fest, both Baker and Temple were struck with the sudden inspiration to recruit Refused frontman Dennis Lyxzén as their singer.
On their self-titled debut, Fake Names bring their collective history to a 28-minute burst of unbridled energy. Co-produced by Hampton and Geoff Sanoff and recorded at Renegade Studios (a New York City facility owned by Little Steven Van Zandt), the album augments their bare-bones breed of punk with a heavy dose of power-pop, cleanly manifested in the band’s bittersweet melodies and abundant backup harmonies.
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Ltd. LP pink Indie Shop
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Tracklist:
Side A
- All For Sale
- Driver
- Being Them
- Brick
- Darkest Days
Side B
- Heavy Feather
- First Everlasting
- This Is Nothing
- Weight
- Lost Cause
