Tuesday, October 18, 2016

New Single from Very Fresh. Hey, It's Me! Out November 4th.

Very Fresh's Cindy Lou Gooden at Shea Stadium

"Hat Tree"

On July 4th weekend, I headed up to Shea Stadium in Brooklyn with my buddy Joe to catch the tour homecoming show from Kino Kimino. One of the openers on that bill was the project of Kino Kimino touring bassist Cindy Lou Gooden, Very Fresh.

It was early, and Shea hadn't really packed out yet. I think I remember being kind of under the weather, but I perked up during Very Fresh's set. The influences of some of my slackery 1990s heroes were clear in Gooden's matter-of-fact and conversational delivery. That shouldn't have been surprising, it turns out, as Gooden was once part of an all-female Pavement cover band (along with Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz) called Babement. One of those chance first meetings with a band that kind of stuck in my mind.

Over the last few weeks, Very Fresh have released a couple of singles as they near the November 4th release of EP Hey, It's Me! via New Professor Music / Inflated Records. First single, "Schedule IV," goes more of the anthemic, post-punk route as Gooden sings of being "out of control" and trying to rein things in. "Hat Tree" is quiet, more intimate, waltzy with an ever-so-slight hint of spaciness. It gets at that lonely, co-dependent feeling of being the one waiting for someone to come home (which I wouldn't know anything about. Nope.).

Give "Hat Tree" a listen below.



Very Fresh play Brooklyn Bazaar this Thursday, October 20th, with Sons Of An Illustrious Father, Turnip King, and Spit. They celebrate the release of Hey, It's Me! on November 13th at Shea Stadium with help from Warcries, Casper Skulls, and Fruit & Flowers. I'm gonna ask Joe if he needs a ride to that one.

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