Christopher W. :: vocals, keyboards, melodica, guitar
Jake :: guitar, uke, guiro, mandolin, vocals
Marie :: violin, keyboards, flute, xylophone, vocals
Matt :: drums, bass clarinet
Chani :: bass, guitar, vocals, bells
Christopher O. :: boston, vocals
Influences
nilsson, ELO, squeeze, wings, matthew wilder
Sounds Like
releases:
The Old-Fashioned Way and Their Weak Constitutions (Dec 2008) the debut CD from OFW featuring 5 previously unreleased tracks $8 (includes US shipping)
The Bay Bridged Vol. 1 (2007) a compilation CD of tracks from 11 different up-and-coming Bay Area artists. featuring a fast version of "Robot on Fire" by TOFW $5 (includes US shipping)
A swarm of multi-talented musicians with a dazzling array of weird instruments erupting from the stage.
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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
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A live favorite for their rocking songs and multi-instrument pop attack. --The Bay Bridged
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A less frantic version of the Arcade Fire...definitely worth your time. --The Deli SF
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Deep-voice indie pop jewels featuring every instrument under the sun. --The Bay Bridged
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Like the Magnetic Fields with a more impressive back-up band. --Noisepop.com
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Danceable indie with a sense of humor straight outta the Tenderloin. --SF Bay Guardian
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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
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