Music Review

New Mansions in Sound (1996)

Fastbacks
Reviewed by Nisid Hajari | Jul 26, 1996
EW's GRADE
A

Details Lead Performance: Fastbacks; Genre: Rock

Since 1979, the Fastbacks have sustained an alternate strand of the Seattle sound — poppy, perky teen-girl melodies, here displayed to gleeful effect. Even when focusing on the requisite angst (''The phone rang once today...for a wrong number''), their three-minute nuggets on New Mansions in Sound turn gloom into a relentlessly, almost sinfully, upbeat experience. A

Originally posted Jul 26, 1996 Published in issue #337 Jul 26, 1996 Order article reprints

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