Mpls St Paul Magazine - Best Local Rock Album of 2008
First Communion Afterparty, Sorry for All the Mondays and to Those Who Can’t Sing. While it’s important for any young group of musicians experimenting with neo-psychedelica to spend time cultivating an air of languid, acid-drenched debauchery, it was unclear whether this one, FCAP, felt it was as important to, you know, actually make a record. After adding veteran guitar player Joey Werner, Liam Watkins’s band of merry cranksters have capitalized on the promise of their stage show with an album of droned-out psych-pop, highlighted by the opening track, “2CB.”
Pulse Magazine
First Communion Afterparty's music belongs to a distinct family: psychedelic rock. It's true: there is no other honest way to describe it. The point is they belong. Their sound is built on psychedelic bands you've heard and some you haven't. There is nothing unfamiliar but there's a fresh personality behind it. With seven band members it would be easy to get tangled up in too many limbs, but that never happens. Each song is an artful balance of dual guitars, bass, keyboard, tambourines, drums, floor tom and vocals from all over.
City Pages
A sprawling commune of a band, these prophets of new psychedelia combine the percussive shake of a den of rattlesnakes with waves of guitar that warp and shimmer like heat coming off a stretch of desert blacktop. FCAP's loose-limbed bohemian jangle and drugged-out drawl are a seductive invitation to get on the bus and head west.
Pioneer Press
Take six kids with disaffected stares, add droning guitars and keyboards, toss in some superfluous percussion and top it all off with a vaguely sacrilegious name, and you've got First Communion Afterparty, a band that's already inspiring friends and enemies with equal amounts of passion.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Together, these south Minneapolis kids come off as Southdale Mall's answer to the Manson Family, with a '60s psychedelic soundtrack to boot. Theirs is a total San Francisco freak-out sound, echoing Jefferson Airplane and Brian Jonestown Massacre (and thus the Velvet Underground and trippier Stones). Coming from musicians this young, the regurgitated music sounds refreshed and vibrant.
City Pages
So, even if First Communion Afterparty are weirdo cult figures visiting us from hazy hey days of the past, let's embrace them. Their music (cleverly cultivated for decades and scientifically delivered to us in the present) is some of the best we have in the Twin Cities.
Seattle Weekly
First Communion Afterparty come off like the bastard tour children of Zia McCabe and Anton Newcombe, abandoned in the suburbs of Minneapolis. They look hip, sound incredible, and borrow just enough from their musical parentage to turn kids under twenty-five on to neo- psychedelia and make anyone over 25 feel real, real old.
Reveille Magazine
"Like A Fire" features a gorgeously thick and muddy guitar breakdown halfway through propelled into the stratosphere by Mama Cairn's throat-scorching vocals. It's easily one of the record's fieriest and most exciting moments. Album opener "2CB" blossoms into a raucous and driving chorus that recalls Spiritualized or The Verve at their grinding, swirling best.
GIMMIE NOISE!
Similarly, First Communion Afterparty, who bring 60s psychadelia to the fore with an ease and authenticity you might not expect from musicians who were hanging out in the ovaries when the acid revolution hit, are a band that positively begs the passing of a water pipe (full of tobacco, naturally). Driving, full of mellow menace, they're a band that was meant to be heard lying down in a grasy meadow.
KEXP Seattle, WA
Their sound is certainly reminiscent of the primarily West Coast psychedelic scene, reaching all the way back to its ’60s roots. Their local Minnesota media ate ‘em up from the get-go, and the band ended up on several year-end who’s-who lists.
KFJC Bay Area, CA
Psychedelic Rock: First Communion Afterparty (FCAP) is a young band with high ideals in every sense of the word “high.” They are “committed to an entrancing psychedelic layer-cake of sound,” and they create this with guitars, keyboards, tambourine, and drums. The vocals are hazy and peripheral, although strong at times. FCAP see themselves as a family that likes to make music together, and this album supposedly cemeted their bond and helped them grow. Their sound is reminiscent of “Go Ask Alice.”
First Communion Afterparty's Friend Space (Top 20)
how are you guys? came back from a 2 weeks Japan tour and doing residency at Spaceland this month. wish we have you guys on one of our nights. but...hope see you guys here around March?
The Flying Eyes are a heavy psych band hailing from Baltimore, Maryland. Since they formed in 2007, the group has played with many renowned bands such as The Raveonettes, The Black Angels, Witch and Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys (during SXSW 2009). The Flying Eyes have also created an annual, home-grown music festival, "Farm Fest", in Manchester, Maryland. This past year they headlined the event, drawing over 400 people to the Carney Family Farm. This fall, they will release a full length compilation of their two EPs ("Bad Blood" and "Winter") on Trip in Time.
If you're around on Thursday, December 10th, we are playing a show at Mario's Keller Bar. I don't know if you've been there, but it's a very cool place. It's a comfortable space, the room sounds great and they have a stellar beer selection.
Also, we will be playing ALL NIGHT! We'll play some funky, bluesy, and soulful music. We'll project live video onto a 9 ft screen. We'll play some older material that hasn't been heard in awhile, as well as some brand new songs that've never been heard. All bets are off!! We'd love it if you'd come down and listen/party with us!
so i needed to buy shampoo the other day, and picked up some green-bottled stuff because it was on sale. i dunno about what it does for my hair, but it smells like the FCAP house, and that makes me pretty happy...
Peace Sunday, June 5, 1982, Rose Bowl, no nukes - nuclear disarmament - stop nuclear madness concert - NYC - Central Park - June 12, 1982, 1,000,000 person march and rally for Nuclear Freeze. Photography and presentation by Curtis Rainbow. 'Give Peace a Chance' music by Achim Schultz. Inspiration by Yoko Ono. Dedicated to John Lennon.
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