{"title":"Fang Island BUNDLE","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"starquake","title":"Starquake","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThe April installment of our \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com\/2014-flexi-disc-series.html\"\u003e2014 Flexi Disc Series\u003c\/a\u003e came from one of our favorite bands in the world: FANG ISLAND!\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIf you are unfamiliar with Fang Island, you are in for a treat. The band's brand of triumphant guitar rock is not only amazingly well-crafted and executed, but it's downright inspiring. Their music has the effect of a motivational speaker, which is somehow accomplished with mostly-instrumental prog \u0026amp; metal tinged rawk. We were first introduced to Fang Island with their \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/fangisland.bandcamp.com\/album\/fang-island\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eself-titled debut album\u003c\/a\u003e on the awesome \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/sargenthouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSargent House\u003c\/a\u003e label. We HIGHLY SUGGEST you check it out (\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/fangisland.bandcamp.com\/album\/fang-island\" target=\"_blank\"\u003estream it at their bandcamp page now\u003c\/a\u003e).\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFor their contribution to the flexi series, the band has offered up the live favorite \"Starquake\", an amazing track which has never been heard before, and is only available on the fleeting analog format of Flexi Disc in quantities of just 1000.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fang Island","offers":[{"title":"Flexi-Disc (7\" square, clear flexi-disc, limited to 1000 copies, sold as part of the 2014 Joyful Noise Flexi-Disc Series)","offer_id":3316890497,"sku":"JNR150.4 - 01","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0844\/5451\/products\/singles-starquake-1.jpeg?v=1478202120"},{"product_id":"patience-hell-ep","title":"Patience Hell EP","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"section group\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col span_1_of_2\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" valign=\"top\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px 6px 8px; background-color: #a9a9a9; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Oswald', sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 100%; text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003eTrack Listing\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px 0px;\"\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePO\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStatue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThread Tugging\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCopper Mirror\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col span_1_of_2\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" valign=\"top\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%; margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px 6px 8px; background-color: #a9a9a9; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Oswald', sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 100%; text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px 0px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePositivity is a rare commodity these days. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMythless is the most aggressively major-key-laden, percussion-heavy, heart-warming experimental music you're likely to hear. The new guitar-worshiping project from Fang Island co-founder Jason Bartell is at once heavy, anthemic, pensive, and triumphantly hopeful. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe debut EP \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePatience Hell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e somehow exists at the intersection of trance-metal and meditative-hardcore. Driven by the shredding, drone-like drums of fellow Fang Island expat Marc St. Sauveur, Mythless flirts with the tech-y music of their peers, but seems to share more DNA with Enya than The Dillinger Escape Plan. The band's unabashed guitar rock exists without ego and without irony. It comes from a place deep inside. Bartell's artistic candor seems to possess a brazen joy and obliviousness to judgement, like watching a stranger in the car next to you belt out a Journey song without a care in the world. It's beautiful, and infectious.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mythless","offers":[{"title":"VIP","offer_id":1291277402132,"sku":"JNR252_Mythless_VIP","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Bone 12\" Vinyl + Digital (Audio on A-side with screen-print on B-side. 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To combat this feeling of impending doom, we present to you the new single \"Dosed\" from the band \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com\/collections\/mythless\"\u003eMythless\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFormed by the members of Fang Island, Mythless is the most aggressively anthemic, heartwarmingly experimental, and triumphantly hopeful music you're likely to hear. We released the band's debut '\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com\/collections\/mythless\/products\/patience-hell-ep\"\u003ePatience Hell EP\u003c\/a\u003e' in 2018, and hope and expect this to be the first of many one-off singles from Mythless in 2019. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dosed\" is now available in extremely limited release of just 150 copies on lathe-cut square 7\" records (each copy hand-made here at JNR).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Mythless","offers":[{"title":"Limited Edition Lathe-Cut + Digital (Limited to 150 hand-made copies on square 7\" lathe-cut records. 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Now, imagine that during these run-ins, each one of them gives you a high-five. They don’t say \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ewhy\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eIt’s just because. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eIt would be \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003ekinda\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e strange, right? Maybe you’d think that you were being subjected to a conceptual art project? But would you end your day in a much, much better mood? Even the average day is filled with good deeds, quiet accomplishments and subtle kindness that goes unacknowledged without a nudge, some break in the stasis that says, “I see you and you deserve to have your triumphs acknowledged.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-ccp-props='{\"201341983\":0,\"335559739\":200,\"335559740\":276}' class=\"EOP SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW260866354 BCX0\" paraeid=\"{1d47cb1d-45d6-4236-8973-c446b1f96750}{75}\" paraid=\"2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eThis was the philosophy that Jason Bartell, Chris Georges, Pete Watts and Phil Curcuru ascribed to as Rhode Island School of Design students, before they ever pinched the name “Fang Island” from a classic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Onion\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003earticle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e. “For some reason, high-fiving was just how we greeted each other every day,” Georges recalls, which would soon evolve into their oft-repeated M.O. - they sounded a little bit like ‘80s metal, a little bit like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eday-glo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e hardcore, a little bit like a cheerleading squad, but always like “everyone high-fiving everyone.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-ccp-props='{\"201341983\":0,\"335559739\":200,\"335559740\":276}' class=\"EOP SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW260866354 BCX0\" paraeid=\"{1d47cb1d-45d6-4236-8973-c446b1f96750}{85}\" paraid=\"3\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eFang Island were here for a good time, and it ended up being a long time - a decade passed from those first wild and wooly jam sessions in 2004 to their final gig at a Barcelona festival.  In between came two albums (2010’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFang Island\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eand 2012’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eMajor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e and two EPs now being reissued on, fittingly enough, Joyful Noise - a label that would need to be invented to embody the spirit of Fang Island if it didn’t already exist.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-ccp-props='{\"201341983\":0,\"335559739\":200,\"335559740\":276}' class=\"EOP SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW260866354 BCX0\" paraeid=\"{1d47cb1d-45d6-4236-8973-c446b1f96750}{99}\" paraid=\"4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e“Can we do this? Is this too goofy? If it made us laugh, we were on the right track,” Georges explains of their quality control. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDoesn’t Exist II: The Complete Recordings\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eis rife with moments that validate this approach -\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e the triple-tracked \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eguitarmonies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e that fade in from the sound of fireworks on “Careful Crossers,” “the “Jack and Diane”-style acoustic riff that splits “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eSideswiper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e” in half, the organ drone on “Daisy,” the wah-wah guitars of “Sisterly,” the country-fried licks of “Dooney Rock.” “It’s really tricky because it can get real cheesy real fast,” Bartell concurs. As Georges succinctly describes the approach: “it was always trying to capture what was what felt musically true about the band.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-ccp-props='{\"201341983\":0,\"335559739\":200,\"335559740\":276}' class=\"EOP SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW260866354 BCX0\" paraeid=\"{1d47cb1d-45d6-4236-8973-c446b1f96750}{111}\" paraid=\"5\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eInitially intended as a front for their printmaking majors, Fang Island began with Georges and Bartell taking full advantage of Providence’s curious college town status. Most students lived in warehouses and apartments rather than dorms, creating a robust art scene with little to no oversight or noise ordinances. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Complete Recordings\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eserves as a bookend to Fang Island’s first EP, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDoesn’t Exist\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003ewhose flippant title belied their hands-on, DIY boosterism; the physical copies came with a handmade box filled with friendship bracelets and sealed with wax and ribbons. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eNo matter where they went, Fang Island’s up-with-people approach made them a subversive art project by default. At a time when the belligerent noise-rock of Lightning Bolt and The Body defined Providence, Fang Island played major-key guitar harmonies and flashy tapping riffs. When people tried to call them “math-rock,” they thought of themselves as “recess rock.” Fang Island shared bills with uber-buzzy bands like Yeasayer and Chairlift at Cake Shop and Santos Party House, crucibles for Brooklyn hype at the turn of the aughts; but their most impactful co-sign came from Andrew WK. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-ccp-props='{\"201341983\":0,\"335559739\":200,\"335559740\":276}' class=\"EOP SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW260866354 BCX0\" paraeid=\"{1d47cb1d-45d6-4236-8973-c446b1f96750}{127}\" paraid=\"6\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eAt least until \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eFang Island \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eearned an\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e unexpected \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBest New Music\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003ereview at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003ePitchfork; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003ein the style of the time, the group - now including drummer Marc St. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eSauver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e and guitarist Nick Sadler - were thrust from\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e playing “literally empty shows” at hot dog stands in Ohio to becoming the toast of SXSW and starting their North American tour with psych-rock idols the Flaming Lips in an Atlantic City casino. They would later play sprawling amphitheaters with Stone Temple Pilots, and in perhaps the best demonstration of their ability to wield pop smarts to guitar pyrotechnics, both Matt \u0026amp; Kim and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eCoheed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e \u0026amp; Cambria. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-ccp-props='{\"201341983\":0,\"335559739\":200,\"335559740\":276}' class=\"EOP SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW260866354 BCX0\" paraeid=\"{1d47cb1d-45d6-4236-8973-c446b1f96750}{147}\" paraid=\"7\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eTwo years after Fang Island released what they expected to be their first and only album, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMajor\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003ebecame the “highly anticipated\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e sophomore LP.” The songs were bigger, shinier and hookier, forged under the pressure that comes with being a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eband\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003erather than a couple of weekend warriors - label pressures, grueling tours and the frequent personnel changes that ultimately brought the band to their amicable end. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFang Island\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003ebegan with the crackle fireworks and, as the band heard fireworks going off in the distance as they played in Barcelona, they took it as a supernatural sign that this show would be the perfect bookend to their career. “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eWe were getting older, we were in serious relationships, we were getting tired, and that just felt like the right way to end it.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-ccp-props='{\"201341983\":0,\"335559739\":200,\"335559740\":276}' class=\"EOP SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW260866354 BCX0\" paraeid=\"{1d47cb1d-45d6-4236-8973-c446b1f96750}{167}\" paraid=\"8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eFang Island are self-admittedly nostalgic people, so it’s fair play if this vinyl reissue brings you back to that very specific period of indie aesthetics - the Dirty Laundry interview series, tall cans of Sparks Ultra, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Buried Life\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eDaytrotter, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eBillboard \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eHeatseekers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e. But Fang Island’s music has been reanimated by a subsequent decade where their one-of-one output now sounds prescient\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e - in 2012, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eJapandroids\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e began their album with a recording of fireworks and created a genre name that would soon encompass Fang Island: “celebration rock.” As one of the first hits on Sargent House, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFang Island\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003ehelped establish one of the label’s core tenets of hyper-melodic, technically proficient prog that included Tera Melos and TTNG. Meanwhile, if a record with as much finger-tapping and gang vocals as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFang Island\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003ewere released in 2024, it’d be the toast of fifth-wave emo. 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Now, imagine that during these run-ins, each one of them gives you a high-five. They don’t say \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ewhy\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eIt’s just because. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eIt would be \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003ekinda\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e strange, right? Maybe you’d think that you were being subjected to a conceptual art project? But would you end your day in a much, much better mood? Even the average day is filled with good deeds, quiet accomplishments and subtle kindness that goes unacknowledged without a nudge, some break in the stasis that says, “I see you and you deserve to have your triumphs acknowledged.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW260866354 BCX0\" data-ccp-props='{\"201341983\":0,\"335559739\":200,\"335559740\":276}'\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW260866354 BCX0\" paraid=\"2\" paraeid=\"{1d47cb1d-45d6-4236-8973-c446b1f96750}{75}\"\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eThis was the philosophy that Jason Bartell, Chris Georges, Pete Watts and Phil Curcuru ascribed to as Rhode Island School of Design students, before they ever pinched the name “Fang Island” from a classic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Onion\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003earticle\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e. “For some reason, high-fiving was just how we greeted each other every day,” Georges recalls, which would soon evolve into their oft-repeated M.O. - they sounded a little bit like ‘80s metal, a little bit like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eday-glo\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e hardcore, a little bit like a cheerleading squad, but always like “everyone high-fiving everyone.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW260866354 BCX0\" data-ccp-props='{\"201341983\":0,\"335559739\":200,\"335559740\":276}'\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW260866354 BCX0\" paraid=\"3\" paraeid=\"{1d47cb1d-45d6-4236-8973-c446b1f96750}{85}\"\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eFang Island were here for a good time, and it ended up being a long time - a decade passed from those first wild and wooly jam sessions in 2004 to their final gig at a Barcelona festival.  In between came two albums (2010’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFang Island\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eand 2012’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eMajor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e and two EPs now being reissued on, fittingly enough, Joyful Noise - a label that would need to be invented to embody the spirit of Fang Island if it didn’t already exist.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW260866354 BCX0\" data-ccp-props='{\"201341983\":0,\"335559739\":200,\"335559740\":276}'\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW260866354 BCX0\" paraid=\"4\" paraeid=\"{1d47cb1d-45d6-4236-8973-c446b1f96750}{99}\"\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e“Can we do this? Is this too goofy? If it made us laugh, we were on the right track,” Georges explains of their quality control. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDoesn’t Exist II: The Complete Recordings\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eis rife with moments that validate this approach -\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e the triple-tracked \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eguitarmonies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e that fade in from the sound of fireworks on “Careful Crossers,” “the “Jack and Diane”-style acoustic riff that splits “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eSideswiper\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e” in half, the organ drone on “Daisy,” the wah-wah guitars of “Sisterly,” the country-fried licks of “Dooney Rock.” “It’s really tricky because it can get real cheesy real fast,” Bartell concurs. As Georges succinctly describes the approach: “it was always trying to capture what was what felt musically true about the band.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW260866354 BCX0\" data-ccp-props='{\"201341983\":0,\"335559739\":200,\"335559740\":276}'\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW260866354 BCX0\" paraid=\"5\" paraeid=\"{1d47cb1d-45d6-4236-8973-c446b1f96750}{111}\"\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eInitially intended as a front for their printmaking majors, Fang Island began with Georges and Bartell taking full advantage of Providence’s curious college town status. Most students lived in warehouses and apartments rather than dorms, creating a robust art scene with little to no oversight or noise ordinances. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Complete Recordings\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eserves as a bookend to Fang Island’s first EP, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDoesn’t Exist\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003ewhose flippant title belied their hands-on, DIY boosterism; the physical copies came with a handmade box filled with friendship bracelets and sealed with wax and ribbons. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eNo matter where they went, Fang Island’s up-with-people approach made them a subversive art project by default. At a time when the belligerent noise-rock of Lightning Bolt and The Body defined Providence, Fang Island played major-key guitar harmonies and flashy tapping riffs. When people tried to call them “math-rock,” they thought of themselves as “recess rock.” Fang Island shared bills with uber-buzzy bands like Yeasayer and Chairlift at Cake Shop and Santos Party House, crucibles for Brooklyn hype at the turn of the aughts; but their most impactful co-sign came from Andrew WK. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW260866354 BCX0\" data-ccp-props='{\"201341983\":0,\"335559739\":200,\"335559740\":276}'\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW260866354 BCX0\" paraid=\"6\" paraeid=\"{1d47cb1d-45d6-4236-8973-c446b1f96750}{127}\"\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eAt least until \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eFang Island \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eearned an\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e unexpected \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBest New Music\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003ereview at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003ePitchfork; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003ein the style of the time, the group - now including drummer Marc St. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eSauver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e and guitarist Nick Sadler - were thrust from\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e playing “literally empty shows” at hot dog stands in Ohio to becoming the toast of SXSW and starting their North American tour with psych-rock idols the Flaming Lips in an Atlantic City casino. They would later play sprawling amphitheaters with Stone Temple Pilots, and in perhaps the best demonstration of their ability to wield pop smarts to guitar pyrotechnics, both Matt \u0026amp; Kim and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eCoheed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e \u0026amp; Cambria. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW260866354 BCX0\" data-ccp-props='{\"201341983\":0,\"335559739\":200,\"335559740\":276}'\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW260866354 BCX0\" paraid=\"7\" paraeid=\"{1d47cb1d-45d6-4236-8973-c446b1f96750}{147}\"\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eTwo years after Fang Island released what they expected to be their first and only album, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMajor\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003ebecame the “highly anticipated\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e sophomore LP.” The songs were bigger, shinier and hookier, forged under the pressure that comes with being a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eband\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003erather than a couple of weekend warriors - label pressures, grueling tours and the frequent personnel changes that ultimately brought the band to their amicable end. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFang Island\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003ebegan with the crackle fireworks and, as the band heard fireworks going off in the distance as they played in Barcelona, they took it as a supernatural sign that this show would be the perfect bookend to their career. “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eWe were getting older, we were in serious relationships, we were getting tired, and that just felt like the right way to end it.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"EOP SCXW260866354 BCX0\" data-ccp-props='{\"201341983\":0,\"335559739\":200,\"335559740\":276}'\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"Paragraph SCXW260866354 BCX0\" paraid=\"8\" paraeid=\"{1d47cb1d-45d6-4236-8973-c446b1f96750}{167}\"\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eFang Island are self-admittedly nostalgic people, so it’s fair play if this vinyl reissue brings you back to that very specific period of indie aesthetics - the Dirty Laundry interview series, tall cans of Sparks Ultra, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Buried Life\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eDaytrotter, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eBillboard \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eHeatseekers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e. But Fang Island’s music has been reanimated by a subsequent decade where their one-of-one output now sounds prescient\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e - in 2012, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003eJapandroids\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e began their album with a recording of fireworks and created a genre name that would soon encompass Fang Island: “celebration rock.” As one of the first hits on Sargent House, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFang Island\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-contrast=\"auto\" lang=\"EN\" class=\"TextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\" xml:lang=\"EN\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW260866354 BCX0\"\u003ehelped establish one of the label’s core tenets of hyper-melodic, technically proficient prog that included Tera Melos and TTNG. 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