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Review: 'Fawn, The'
'The Fawn (EP)'   


-  Genre: 'Indie'

Our Rating:
Confusingly, this eponymous EP doesn’t appear on the band’s discography, which ends with last year’s live document ‘Fours a Choux’ but also features three eponymous Eps (of which this is not one of them) and another EP called ‘Who’s the Fawn?’ It’s a good question, and one I haven’t the strength to tackle here. This Swiss act is an enigma wrapped in several other enigmas, so better than trying to unravel things is surely sitting back and listening.

The eclectic strangeness of ‘Overture’ paves the way for the driving squall-of-noise that is ‘Sleeping Lion’. What the hell is this? The drums – those relentless, piston-pumping drums, driving an uptempo four-four rhythm dominate, but blinding blasts of melting guitar crash all around with devastating effect.

It ain’t metal, it ain’t indie... this is just a blistering, treble-led sonic assault. Jesus and Mary Chain and A Place to Bury Strangers references are obvious but don’t quite hit the mark,while the weirdy experimentalism of the eight-minute ‘Branches’ lurches through a beat-driven sonic swamp that somehow evokes Eels and Joy Division. Unique and then some, The Fawn warrant their own musical category. We’ll call it The Fawn.

The Fawn Online
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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