A swarm of multi-talented musicians with a dazzling array of weird instruments erupting from the stage.
* * * * * * * * * *
Crowded around their sage leader, the OFW give off the ease of a family band, though no member remotely resembles another. They’re Dickensian orphans, then, who’ve gathered to put on a minstrel show — and who’ve had to find a sound to fit their strange batch of instruments. The two red-blooded guitars and the drum kit give the songs a sturdy rock core when the band wishes it. But there are also, at points, a Paul McCartney–style toy bass, an accordion, a triangle, a wailing keyboard, and a melodica, which pile into a haunted and seductive sort of antipop, mournful and klezmerish on a track like "Robot on Fire" but boppy, harmonic, and needing a restroom on "Take Your Fluids." --SF Bay Guardian
**********
A live favorite for their rocking songs and multi-instrument pop attack. --The Bay Bridged
**********
A less frantic version of the Arcade Fire...definitely worth your time. --The Deli SF
**********
Deep-voice indie pop jewels featuring every instrument under the sun. --The Bay Bridged
**********
Like the Magnetic Fields with a more impressive back-up band. --Noisepop.com
**********
Danceable indie with a sense of humor straight outta the Tenderloin. --SF Bay Guardian
**********
San Francisco has always had a vibrant indie-pop community, but The Old-Fashioned Way are the first locals I’ve seen (who aren’t freak-folk collectives) to really go big....Chris Wu’s basso vocals bridge the hitherto-unrealized gap between Calvin Johnson and Johnny Cash. --Albondigas
Hi there! If you could take a minute, please vote for us in the open for Coldplay contest for DC, we're the 11th video down or 5th from the bottom. The still should be a girl singing in a tanktop. Please vote by the 17th of July! Thanks!
Thanx for Your Friendship,,If you should get your hands on our cd please burn it and place the burnt copies in random restrooms or countries,,or countries with restrooms. Because we want you to be happy on your travels and not baffled when the country you are in has no restroom to put our CD.
hi everyone .
phantom float is playing at the retox lounge this friday .
The Retox Lounge w/ Synonyms for Silence, The Pilots Wife, Hunters, and Make Amends .
starts at doors at 8 .
show at 9 .
it would be super cool if you came out .
ps .
im trying to find someone to come out and help us with a light show .
please let me know if you can help . i'll throw you on the guest list .
and PLEASE help spread the word , and ask your lighting friends if they would be interested in helping ? ? ?
love .
mike .
hi .
i've got some shows coming up for anyone in the bay area .
id love it if you came out . check my page for details .
also . . .
im looking to meet new bands , and set up shows with them .
any thoughts ?
i love you. each and every one of you. chris and chris and heather and marie and jake (aka "BR") and matt and the cellist, whom i didn't meet but i bet i would love too. you must come down to los angeles and play a show. each and every one of you are welcome to stay at my apartment. because i love you and your bass clarinet your five part harmonies and your total goodness.
