Fashionetta
Invest In Excitement
Tape (FSU Records)
There’s a new player on the scene. Fashionetta mixes good songwriting, good production, and catchy songs on its debut cassette Invest In Excitement.
The highlights of the album are "Close to Never" with its trance-like rhythms and gang choruses, and "Plum" which ends "The fire at your feet is bound to die away."
Fashionetta has a very radio-friendly sound, especially on the aforementioned "Close to Never," and "How You Gonna Fix This."
A few different bands can be heard in Fashionetta. Some that come to mind are Fugazi (On "Lunger"), The Wrens (on "Figure It Out"), Gang of Four (On "Ouch My Ear"), and even the King himself on "Downside Out" which takes a sample from "Suspicious Minds."
"Ouch My Ear" is one of the three instrumentals on the album—"Sleeper" and "OK Nick" being the other two—which were designed for a movie soundtrack.
Overall, the sound is there. The band definitely has a lot of talent, can write a good song, and are very tight. The production, by Eric Blume at Rubber Room Studios, is also excellent.
Fashionetta are a safe bet if you like fast indie rock, a la Fugazi.
- Chad Painter (Mar 15, 2000)
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