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Stankfüt's Fritters In this chaotic post-modernity, with cynics and yahoos running around screaming that music is dead, the Ohio-imported LA band Stankfüt emerges from the ashes of recycled music like a smirking red Phoenix. Stankfüt's music is salve for radio-weary ears. With their debut album Fritters, the bass-sax-drums trio confounds pigeonholes and ready-made labels to reassert the forgotten notion that the music is the thing. Like their outlandish name, their music slips through preconceptions like an eel on an oil slick. So squash the voice on your shoulder barking that funk, jazz, folk, world-beat, rock and pop do not converge. They do. And at the center of that locus is Stankfüt. If you think that bass + sax + drums equals Morphine, think again. Stankfüt's music compares to Morphine in instrumentation only, and sustains a more raw, in-your-face edge. The Stankfüt sound proves without a doubt that electric guitar is not an essential element in a band. Bassist/vocalist Kristoffer Carter describes their music as "pulsating bass grooves strapped to some tight-ass drums with a lush layer of sax over the top of it. Organic and slick but also dark and gritty." Produced by Justin Harvey, and co-produced by Andy Stephan and Stankfüt, Stankfüt's Fritters (Snazzy Pants Records SPR) is a melding of roguishly earnest vocals, thumb-drumming basslines, cascading saxophone melodies and relentless drum rifts. With no room for individual limelight-hogging, each instrument breathes and courses to sustain Stankfüt's enchanting poise. For these three, equal parts drums, bass, sax and vocals yield a carefully orchestrated musical mobile. Not for the faint of heart, Stankfüt's Fritters is a wicked ball-busting, roller coaster montage of opposing forces. Full of aurally explosive paradoxes, the trio manages to pull off buoyant intensity and sardonic optimism with a melodic edge. Written by Sarah Tebbe Check out the artist's website: http://www.stankfut.com/news/news.html Track List: 1. Listen 2. Small Seizure 3. Don't Change 4. Flight of the Beaver 5. Dry Sockets 6. Suffer 7. Queasy 8. Effortless 9. Wicked Feelah (Island Song) 10. Introvert 11. Spark it Up 12. Charlie's Pork Suggestion Suggested CDs:Other Genres:
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