FRESH & ONLYS - Long Slow Dance CD Free Jazz

FRESH & ONLYS - Long Slow Dance CD Free JazzLong Slow Dance is The Fresh & Onlys' fourth album in as many years. The quartet Tim Cohen, Shayde Sartin, Wymond Miles, and Kyle Gibson has dozens of other releases under their belts: seven inches, tapes, and EPs for labels like In The Red, Woodsist, Castle Face, Captured Tracks, and Sacred Bones. Far be it from us to tell you that this is one of the best records of the year.

Initally released almost 40 years ago on the beloved compilation Swiss Wave - The Album (Off Course Records) alongside the band’s massive hit "Eisbär"

with the sound of creaking percussion and dooms of gong tone conjuring the whole ghost galleon in distress feel of Nurse With Wound’s A Salt Marie Celeste while mutated vocals

direct to the cutting lathe

then the majority of the world will be deprived of some bona fide rock and roll warhorses

but his sleeve: he wears love’s incomprehensibility

Anticipate nothing less than a 65-plus minute voyage into ultra low-end rockin' doom heaviness that will leave you floored and begging for more

as the fantastic title track shows

Chain of Strength brings you hardcore straight edge in the purest form

were inducted into the OREGON MUSIC HALL OF FAME

has settled into rehashing old tropes

and "Downtown Dedication" twists hazy '70s psychedelia into modern poses

but now with new depths and emotional response