The Ferocious Few, Fake Your Own Death, Murder of Lillies, Death Valley High

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Two-man duo The Ferocious Few formed in 2006 when Francisco Fernandez (composer/guitar/vocals) and Daniel Aguilar (percussion) took their informal jam sessions in Oakland, CA to the streets of San Francisco with a portable P.A.. The Ferocious Few's stripped down, lo-fi sound has been classified as rock, punk, or rockabilly, and along with the bluesy elements of Fernandez's howling vocals, The Ferocious Few's raw sound may be best categorized in the increasingly ambiguous genre of garage rock.
After recording the 5-song EP From The Streets to Your Heart in the summer of 2007 on Pro Tools in the back of a New Jersey strip club, they began selling it by the hundreds, then thousands, at local shows and street performances in and around San Francisco. This garnered them enough of a local buzz in to gain some spots around the country, and when they arrived back home they found themselves being sought out to play at San Francisco's premiere venues. Remaining true to the title of their first EP, they could also still be found playing on the corner of O'Farrell and Powell streets with their portable equipment. "I like to be on the same level with everybody," says Fernandez about street performing, "What does the stage mean?"
Whether playing on the streets of San Francisco with a portable P.A. or at Shoreline Amphitheater's Download Festival 2008, The Ferocious Few deliver a tight, intimate performance regardless of the venue, signatured by Aguilar's heavy train beats with Fernandez's strained guitar and voice chiming in over the top to round out their sound.
In traditional rock angst fashion, vocalist and composer Francisco Fernandez sings of heartbreak, pain, and lost love while referencing it all to the post-modern world around him and how it relates to everyone else. "Our music is based on struggle, and that's what I think people can relate to," he says, "I want to create something that's relevant to our culture, not alienated by it."

"Fake Your Own Death played only their fourth show ever Friday night and I couldn't have been more impressed. The music is a mix of Joy Division, Love and Rockets and The National with brief moments of Interpol thrown in. This three piece debuted songs from their forthcoming album to a sizable crowd Friday which was really great to see...My favorite track by FYOD sounds like it would fit really well on "Alligator" by The National. "Few Plus One" is a simple track, but one that packs a serious punch. And with lyrics like "Burning airplane/ which way to crash/ no message, no map/ you take the keys man, I'll hide the stash...", you can see quickly the comparison to The National, at least lyrically, is pretty spot on. Another sweet track is the rocker "Mouth to Speak" which features Brain's favorite line "Your face, my fist...I haven't been this excited about a local group in quite some time. Get to know them." (Front Porch Musings)

Murder of Lilies makes a statement of understatement and one of overstatement. Each song is a study of contradiction between noise and serenity, beauty and repulsiveness, heaviness and levity, ecstasy and agony.
Inasmuch as they can be defined at all, they are post-punk, they are indie, they are pop, and they are darkwave. Their sound combines haunting vocals with angular, washed out guitars, swelling keyboards, and is driven by deliberate, electro beats.

Fuse distorted guitar riffs over dance-punk beats and you'll have Death Valley High - the mixtape to a doomsday dance party.

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