FIANCÉ - “Division”
Posted under: From all my years growing up, if I were to replicate any technique of any existing musician, it’d be travelling down to a big house in Cape Cod—by way of Grizzly Bear—laying out all my instruments in different corners of the room and thrashing every inch of dear life right outta’ them. Those wild crescendos you hear on records like Veckatimest are one of a kind. Only one in a million bands are capable of creating such a vivid, sparse style of production. It’s eye-opening and it sends you to a different, more fascinating world.
FIANCÉ, a band who I know next to nothing about, might own a big-ass property in Cape Cod, the lucky buggers, but chances are they’ve just come exceptionally close to recreating the ol’ Bear‘s whisky-soaked songs with their crystallised, glass-like guitar sections. Debut track “Division” is more than a touch promising. It broods and fidgets, never settling into one discernible rhythm or melody. Parts sound almost intentionally sloppy, the rhythm section never quite tightening itself up to the fullest degree, out of stubbornness more than anything. But as a wild, ravaged beast, it recreates everything I love about one of my favourite bands. And in doing so, it also sets a distinct path to track for this group of young, excitable pretenders.
