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A mere 25 years after releasing their first LP, the Young Fresh Fellows have clearly decided it was time to get serious about their career, and they brought in a name producer to man the boards for I Think This Is, their first album since 2001's Because We Hate You. The producer in question is Robyn Hitchcock, a shrewd choice since he's previously never produced an album for anyone other than himself, and the former Soft Boy actually does make his presence felt in this recording. While the Young Fresh Fellows have often displayed a gleeful sense of eclecticism on record, jumping from style to style as they skip from one tune to the next, I Think This Is is an unusually focused and coherent-sounding set; though the songs reflect the Fellows' wide-ranging tastes, from the peppy '60s pop of "Go Blue Angels Go" and the semi-disco vamp of "The Ballad of the Bootleg" to the punk-leaning snap of "Shake Your Magazines," and the garage rock snarl of "Let the Good Times Crawl," with Hitchcock behind the board the recording has a uniformly crisp and centered sound, as Scott McCaughey's and Kurt Bloch's guitars dominate the mix, and the melodies drive the performances instead of playing tricks with the arrangements to give each track its own sound. Since McCaughey has been devoting much of his time to his other band, the Minus 5, and playing as a sideman with R.E.M., it should come as no surprise that many of the songs on I Think This Is sound more like McCaughey's work for other acts than his previous work with the Young Fresh Fellows; the quality of the songs is uniformly good, but "If You Believe in Cleveland" and "Your Mexican Restaurant" reflect a side of the band's personality that seems to have gotten lost on "Used to Think All Things Would Happen" and "The Guilty Ones." This is a cleaner, neater, and less cluttered Young Fresh Fellows' album than one might expect, but I Think This Is still reveals the quirky joy this band can summon like no other, and after an eight-year layoff, having them back is good news, even on an album that's good but not exceptional.
© Mark Deming /TiVo
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SCOTT MCCAUGHEY, Composer - Young Fresh Fellows, MainArtist - MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music, MusicPublisher
2009 Yep Roc Records 2009 MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music
Young Fresh Fellows, MainArtist - Kurt Bloch, Composer - Energy House Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music, MusicPublisher
2009 Yep Roc Records 2009 Energy House Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music
SCOTT MCCAUGHEY, Composer - Young Fresh Fellows, MainArtist - MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music, MusicPublisher
2009 Yep Roc Records 2009 MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music
Young Fresh Fellows, MainArtist - MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music, MusicPublisher - Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck, Composer
2009 Yep Roc Records 2009 MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music
SCOTT MCCAUGHEY, Composer - Young Fresh Fellows, MainArtist - MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music and Temporary Music, BMI, admin. Warner-Tamerlane, MusicPublisher
2009 Yep Roc Records 2009 MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music and Temporary Music, BMI, admin. Warner-Tamerlane
Young Fresh Fellows, MainArtist - Kurt Bloch, Composer - Energy House Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music, MusicPublisher
2009 Yep Roc Records 2009 Energy House Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music
SCOTT MCCAUGHEY, Composer - Young Fresh Fellows, MainArtist - MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music, MusicPublisher
2009 Yep Roc Records 2009 MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music
Young Fresh Fellows, MainArtist - Christopher Weldon Ballew and Theodore Thomas Hutchison, Composer - Aurora Elephant Music, ASCAP and Actual Shelby Music, BMI, MusicPublisher
2009 Yep Roc Records 2009 Aurora Elephant Music, ASCAP and Actual Shelby Music, BMI
SCOTT MCCAUGHEY, Composer - Young Fresh Fellows, MainArtist - MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music, MusicPublisher
2009 Yep Roc Records 2009 MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music
Young Fresh Fellows, MainArtist - Christopher Weldon Ballew and Theodore Thomas Hutchison, Composer - Aurora Elephant Music, ASCAP and Actual Shelby Music, BMI, MusicPublisher
2009 Yep Roc Records 2009 Aurora Elephant Music, ASCAP and Actual Shelby Music, BMI
SCOTT MCCAUGHEY, Composer - Young Fresh Fellows, MainArtist - MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music, MusicPublisher
2009 Yep Roc Records 2009 MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music
SCOTT MCCAUGHEY, Composer - Young Fresh Fellows, MainArtist - MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music, MusicPublisher
2009 Yep Roc Records 2009 MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music
SCOTT MCCAUGHEY, Composer - Young Fresh Fellows, MainArtist - MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music, MusicPublisher
2009 Yep Roc Records 2009 MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music
Album review
A mere 25 years after releasing their first LP, the Young Fresh Fellows have clearly decided it was time to get serious about their career, and they brought in a name producer to man the boards for I Think This Is, their first album since 2001's Because We Hate You. The producer in question is Robyn Hitchcock, a shrewd choice since he's previously never produced an album for anyone other than himself, and the former Soft Boy actually does make his presence felt in this recording. While the Young Fresh Fellows have often displayed a gleeful sense of eclecticism on record, jumping from style to style as they skip from one tune to the next, I Think This Is is an unusually focused and coherent-sounding set; though the songs reflect the Fellows' wide-ranging tastes, from the peppy '60s pop of "Go Blue Angels Go" and the semi-disco vamp of "The Ballad of the Bootleg" to the punk-leaning snap of "Shake Your Magazines," and the garage rock snarl of "Let the Good Times Crawl," with Hitchcock behind the board the recording has a uniformly crisp and centered sound, as Scott McCaughey's and Kurt Bloch's guitars dominate the mix, and the melodies drive the performances instead of playing tricks with the arrangements to give each track its own sound. Since McCaughey has been devoting much of his time to his other band, the Minus 5, and playing as a sideman with R.E.M., it should come as no surprise that many of the songs on I Think This Is sound more like McCaughey's work for other acts than his previous work with the Young Fresh Fellows; the quality of the songs is uniformly good, but "If You Believe in Cleveland" and "Your Mexican Restaurant" reflect a side of the band's personality that seems to have gotten lost on "Used to Think All Things Would Happen" and "The Guilty Ones." This is a cleaner, neater, and less cluttered Young Fresh Fellows' album than one might expect, but I Think This Is still reveals the quirky joy this band can summon like no other, and after an eight-year layoff, having them back is good news, even on an album that's good but not exceptional.
© Mark Deming /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:32:39
- Main artists: Young Fresh Fellows
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Yep Roc Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
2009 Yep Roc Records 2009 MacNor Music, BMI, admin. Bug Music
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