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Title: Fugu 1 (for SMiLE fans) Post by: EgoHanger1966 on July 24, 2012, 10:52:15 AM I've had this album for a little while, but I don't see this guy (real name:Mehdi Zannad) mentioned anywhere. Under the name Fugu, he has a couple albums, but this one is head and shoulders above the others. Great baroque/chamber pop. But everytime I put it on, I am constantly thinking it's the son of SMiLE: not in lyrical terms so much (although there is a song about a barn!), but in the instrumentation and feel of the album. And, the first song is a rip off of Workshop. It can be found for mere pennies on Amazon used. Hope some of you enjoy it.
http://www.amazon.com/Fugu-1/dp/B00005NTQL/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343152125&sr=8-1&keywords=fugu+1 Title: Re: Fugu 1 (for SMiLE fans) Post by: Aum Bop Diddit on July 24, 2012, 08:19:29 PM I went to YouTube and listened to a good bit. Definitely worthy and engaging and the Beach Boys are in there, but more by way of Emmit Rhodes, The High Llamas, and Belle and Sebastian. That's a good thing!
Title: Re: Fugu 1 (for SMiLE fans) Post by: hypehat on July 25, 2012, 03:26:57 PM It's on Spotify too http://open.spotify.com/album/5Zddk0c9rcBqZ9U0UEjJUR
Am giving it a go atm, will report back Title: Re: Fugu 1 (for SMiLE fans) Post by: EgoHanger1966 on July 25, 2012, 04:15:07 PM It's on Spotify too http://open.spotify.com/album/5Zddk0c9rcBqZ9U0UEjJUR Am giving it a go atm, will report back Forgot to mention that - Spotify is where I first heard it! (around the same time, I also discovered Lewis Taylor's "The Lost Album" on Spotify, which features a great Pet Sounds pastiche called "Let's Hope That Nobody Finds Us" - the best song Brian Wilson never wrote). |