Fancey

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Lost In Twilight 03:45 Tools
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Carry Me 02:54 Tools
Bitter Life 04:07 Tools
Fader 03:20 Tools
Gulf Breeze 03:16 Tools
Rock and Roll Rhythm 03:11 Tools
Blue Star 03:11 Tools
Karma's Out To Get Me 03:00 Tools
Downtown II 03:28 Tools
Cross O' Gold 03:15 Tools
Dial Jupiter 03:47 Tools
Heaven's Way 03:11 Tools
Whoa 03:53 Tools
Feels Like Dawn 03:05 Tools
Let the Breeze In 03:53 Tools
Strayed Out 03:58 Tools
Sunbrite 03:35 Tools
Saturday Morning 02:57 Tools
'Til The Morning Comes 02:49 Tools
Autumn Music 02:33 Tools
In Town 04:17 Tools
I'll Be Down 03:02 Tools
Baby Sunshine 03:02 Tools
Magical Summer 03:10 Tools
Dream All Nght 03:10 Tools
Witch Attack! 03:10 Tools
Carrie 03:10 Tools
Turn Around Baby 03:10 Tools
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In the Morning Light 03:10 Tools
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Come Run With Me 04:07 Tools
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Saturday AM 04:07 Tools
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Is anybody going to San Antone? 04:07 Tools
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Merry go round 04:07 Tools
Peter and Lou 04:07 Tools
My rifle, pony and me 04:07 Tools
Graduation Day 04:07 Tools
All My Friends 04:07 Tools
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Cross O'Gold 04:07 Tools
? in the Sky 04:07 Tools
That One Night 04:07 Tools
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Todd Fancey is the guitarist for the band The New Pornographers. He has released two albums on the WHAT ARE RECORDS label under the name Fancey, an eponymous debut in 2004 and a followup entitled Shmancey in October 2007. He is from Vancouver CA and describes his music as "soft rock that rocks". Soft rock, dirty words? No, not anymore. With the popularity of Phoenix, Postal Service, and Kings Of Convenience, indie rock's angry core has become kinder and gentler, at least on first listen. Enter Todd Fancey, a Vancouver student of 70's AM radio, whose "other" band, the New Pornographers, have been tearing it up in the US, Canada, and Europe over the course of two amazingly popular records for Matador and Mint. Playing guitars and keyboards in the New Pornographers is a challenge and thrill for Fancey, but he yearned to do something more. Something big. And it's something wonderful, his self-titled debut solo record is chock full of driving Wurlitzer pianos, crunchy guitars, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road style string arrangments, and pretty backing vocals. Though his influences are on his sleeve and are detectable in the lead off tracks like Carry Me and Dial Jupiter, It's more than a New Pornographers side project. It's a simply stunning beginning to a long road of making perfect pop albums. So how does the followup "Shmancey" compare to this? On first listen, things seem a bit darker, with a greater range of styles and moods in evidence. Lead-off track "Lost In Twilight", recalls the uptempo summer pop of the first album, but from there we're quickly off into the dreamy, almost woozy "Gulf Breeze" and the country-tinged lament "Fader." Todd's ex-girlfriend, Sara Lapsley, is a key member of the band's continuing partnership, and she shines on the gorgeous fade-out of "Let The Breeze In." Fancey sounds like nothing else. It's sunny, bouncy, but with a certain sadness to the lyrics. It's classic rock for the indie rock set. It's classy soft rock that invokes the names Beach Boys, Todd Rundgren, Emitt Rhodes, and The Association. But it's never effete, and it's never twee. It's a grown up sound that reels you in with its infectious melodies and delicious arrangments. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.