Fatangryman
Thu 15 Apr 2010
Chilli The Cat Doesn’t Have Fleas
Anyone who has seen Fatangryman play live will know that the band struggles to keep in time, but that seems to be becoming more of a charm than a hindrance as they’ve given us dibs on their first single, titled ‘Wrapped In Plastic’. You’ll probably instantly notice that the guitar is out of tune, but don’t lots of bands do that on purpose? The song actually has some value, coming via a dry, monotone chorus and a grungy, heavily distorted bass line. It sounds a little bit like they listened to Batrider and then decided to play it really loose and dirty. Jessica Dew and Ary Jansen’s voices stick to a dark repetitious tone similar to Sarah Chadwick’s and Reuben Winter shows he’s no coward on the drums, adding some thunderous drum rolls. It’s very impressive when compared to their live performance, which is normally a shambolic mixture of nerves and laughter.
Fatangryman- Wrapped In Plastic: MP3
Posted by Nick Fulton under Auckland, New Zealand
[46] Comments
April 15th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Good band + good song. Ka pai.
April 15th, 2010 at 3:08 pm
fantangryman…phantogram…this is too confusing
April 15th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
Not out of tune – dischords.
April 15th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
i can’t tell whether this post is slightly negative in an awkward way? fatangryman are great with sweet songs that enable me to look past their out of timeness, rather than weirdly turn it into a good thing?-they seem to be getting better with keeping in time anyway. you guys should have seen their last show, minimal shambolic nerves and laughter. jus sayin
April 16th, 2010 at 11:11 am
Yeah, I was really surprised that we only went out of time once! and there were no song fails!! YAYOR!
April 16th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
i saw them at basement a while ago, the first song was mean but the rest didn’t do much 4 me. this song’s cool though. cool voxals
April 16th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
these little dweebs need some music lessons. heard of a thing called a time signature? listen to some opeth and then get back to me
April 17th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
umm opeth. lol.
April 18th, 2010 at 12:04 am
yeah man, tool and shit are waay meaner than these cuntz too. learn some fibonacci sequences then get back to me.
April 18th, 2010 at 11:38 am
Nick, you know I’m a fan, but what the fuck is the point in writing a post on a band just to almost passively-aggressively say they aren’t very good?
I’m not sure if that’s not how you meant it but when you say “that seems to be becoming more of a charm than a hindrance” and “the song actually has some value”, that’s how it reads.
To me it seems like writing about young bands in the past (MSW?!?!, Bandi etc.) and getting negative backlash has made you terribly self-conscious and scared of hate so this time around you went really defensive before anyone had even said anything. That’s kind of understandable I guess, but totally unfair to fatangryman, especially seeing as you actually asked them for the song.
Yes fatangryman need practice live, but name me a new live band in NZ that doesn’t? Especially one as young as them. And I’m pretty sure they realise this without you coming on here and mentioning it when ur only job was to tell people how awesome they are (coz they are awesome) and showcase their new single.
OH NO WAIT I H8 EVERYTHIN THEREFORE AM IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE SRSLY. EVEN WHEN I SAY I LIKE SOMETHING I MUST BY LYING. FUCK JOE, HE’S AN ARROGANT CUNT.
April 18th, 2010 at 3:34 pm
couldnt of said it better mate. research the greats, yngwie malmsteen can hit 100 notes in a minute. i know u cunts go to school yeh well i go also go to school, the school of hard rock and even go there when im sleeping (in my dreams)
April 18th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
play some slayer
April 18th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
I’ve discovered a new band in Auckland. They are between 1 and 3 yrs old and some of them can’t even walk yet. They can’t speak or play any instruments (or eat solid foods) but they show great promise for the future.
But seriously,
You think Steve Vai goes out of time? Forget about it. He started the G3 tour. In his spare time he is also an avid beekeeper. Until accolades start being handed out based on ability to perform tapping solos whilst standing in a ring of fire then I am afraid music will be unable to move forward
April 18th, 2010 at 7:39 pm
I THINK YOUR DRUMMER SHOULD GET SUM DOUBLE KICKS, THEN HE CAN BE A REAL DRUMMER LIKE ME. AND YOU GUYS SHOULD PLAY IN DROP-B, COS IT’S WAY BETTER. SOME DEATH GROWLS, AND HIGH-PITCHED WAILING WOULD BE MEAN TOO.
April 18th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
ROCKSTARROCKSTARICANBEAROCKSTAR
April 19th, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Gosh – ‘learn music theory’ so you can sound like everyone else who learns the rules, how dumb!
Tool … very aptly named.
You guys who want to be like other bands and musicians are just pathetic. It doesn’t matter how fast you can play and how tight you can be if you don’t have a creative gram in your brains.
April 19th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Nothing wrong with the review. It’s honest. Not passive aggressive.
April 19th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
I think they were joking……?
April 20th, 2010 at 2:16 am
joe bro, u can’t have yr cake and eat it too. would you have been so pissed if the fatangryman review had been a couple months ago and posi as, and the bandi one was now and on the nicer side of lukewarm?
at the end of the day, the post says the track is good, and it’s on a blog that gets a whole lot more readz than most independent local music websites, so it’s hardly doing them any disservice.
April 20th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
God, I hope they were joking!
April 20th, 2010 at 10:58 pm
I don’t really get it, Matt?
For the Bandicoot thing they got given a review copy and it was their perogative to form whatever opinion they wanted but in this instance they actually ASKED the band for “dibs” on the track and were then (imo) counfoundingly half-hearted.
And anyway, what annoys me is that Nick is pandering to other peoples opinions (“if I had written they were good then people like Joe would have come on and hassled me”)rather than being honest about his own and fatangryman are suffering for it. Eeeeven though he writes about a new band like every day and there is no way that NO ONE is going to have anything bad to say about ANY of them! If he can’t handle conflicting opinions then he should stop blogging!
But ur right, for all intents and purposes this post probably did do what it was meant to. My respone prob wasn’t that justified and this is not rreeeaally a big deal. I’d stand by my opinion by I’m sorry for expressing it so vocally
So yeah, SORRY NICK.
April 20th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Omg brains vs nevernudes
April 20th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
I mean Wilberforces
April 20th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
OH BABIEE BABIEE HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW, THAT SOMETHIN’ WASN’T RIGHT HERE??
XOXXX
April 20th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
Do a post about Kitsunegari. The best kid band in Ak.
April 21st, 2010 at 12:18 am
im in a kid band but we is all in our 20′s is that still cool!?
April 21st, 2010 at 12:22 am
^bandcest
April 21st, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Oi Joe, Nick woz probably joking aye.
and Jackson, youze funny cunt aye?
April 22nd, 2010 at 5:02 pm
METALDRUMMER3000
hi reuben
April 23rd, 2010 at 2:32 pm
I doubt people write blogs with your opinion in mind, Joe.
April 23rd, 2010 at 6:51 pm
what is yr pretence?
April 24th, 2010 at 4:17 pm
jsnbjanfaUABSUFBbjbdDIDYOUACTUALLYREADTHECOMMENT??
writing this post with other people’s opinions in mind is exactly what he DID do by his own admission AND I’M SAYING THAT’S BAD NOT GOOD
April 26th, 2010 at 11:56 am
youz crack me up
April 26th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Umm. I genuinely think you should do a post about Kistsunegari Nick/Sarah. I have heaps of really good reasons:
1. we’re really cool.
2. we are all real pretty.
3. we played some shows before. like 3 or some shit. it was mean.
4. if you do we can be cool KIDS like bandicoot and fatangryman. and then get lots of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
April 26th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
agree with Reuben. BTW he’s a good dude. And fit. As.
Much love from TayTay.
April 27th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
If people argue about you in the comments section of EMJ it means yr famous (1995 are the exception). Congrats F.A.M.
April 28th, 2010 at 11:47 am
high profile new zelander-dom here you come. aren’t you guys gonna be on some sort of 18 and under compilation??
HYPE HYPE HYPE
lol
April 29th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Our EP GUILT is now sold out… But you can still buy digitally from itunes. New tracks on the way!
April 30th, 2010 at 10:59 am
who’s ep???
July 4th, 2010 at 11:24 pm
batrider? why the fuck would u compare them to that fucking shitty band? they sound nothing like them and have a sound of there own, you obvs cant look outside the box, if u were gonna compare them to a band, you could say raooul who fucking rule(which i doubt u even know)
yawn.
major fucking yawn
this review sucks
July 6th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
I’m pretty sure fatangryman really like Batrider, shame.
July 21st, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Yet another band that started off as a joke and thought that people laughing with/at their band was genuine praise and thus started taking their hissing broken noises all a bit too seriously … bandicoot
July 22nd, 2010 at 10:41 am
Dear Mr. Logic.
Sorry for some youngsters having fun and actually playing music they want to, without being bogged down with conventions such as “jazz scales” and “progressive blast beats.” We apologize sincerely for causing this jadedness – we should just neglect young bands like FATANGRYMAN and focus more on older artists and salt the earth to stop over bands growing out of the ground.
Yours
Benjii Jackson
The guy who keeps putting 60% of Auckland’s most hated young bands out.
July 23rd, 2010 at 6:26 pm
benjii jackson, punk rock messiah, god to the under agers
July 27th, 2010 at 7:23 pm
<3 Benjii
July 28th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
these girls look like they are on drugs, it’s disgusting!