Photo of The Freeways

The Freeways

The Freeways Radio

Music

FEATURED SONG
Love Is a Sick Thing
  1. Play
  2. Play Next
  3. Add to queue
Love Is a Sick Thing
Album:
Released: Jan 1, 2010
Label:

General Info

  • Genre: Indie / Psychedelic / Rock

    Location Cambridge, Massachusetts, Un

    Profile Views: 46549

    Last Login: 6/20/2012

    Member Since 11/4/2005

    Website www.the-freeways.com

    Record Label Polk Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    The Freeways' current setlist of garage psych pop emanates dreamy melodies and sweet harmonies laid over hypnotic, jangling riffs. Melodies and lyrics often spring to life from a state of semi-consciousness. Songs arrive in dreams and live shows are an avenue to follow the music to new places.

  • Members

    Karen Zanes vocal, guitar, percussion >Franky Butkus guitar, vocal >Mike Swidrak bass > ....................................................... drummers heard on recordings: Tim Madden, Ben G, Doug Carson, Nathan Wood.

  • Influences

    Beatles, Stones, Velvet Underground, Bowie, Stooges, Ramones, X, Joy Division, New Order, Sonic Youth, Eno, Roxy Music, Modern Lovers, Yo La Tengo, Morphine, My Bloody Valentine, The Warlocks, Black Angels, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Raveonettes, Chopin, Chambers Bros, Motown, Black Lips, Dirtbombs, Lyres, Real Kids, Lemon Pipers, Neil Young, Guided by Voices, Psychedelic Furs

  • Sounds Like

    a blurry photograph.

Comments

Post a comment...
10 of 217More
........Boston Phoenix Review of our Self-Titled Release........After reading too many shitty reviews that included summations like "band X screwing band Y on Z kind of drugs," I swore off comparing bands to more-famous bands. It's like quitting cigarettes, however. With a little willpower, I can produce more-creative descriptions. But sometimes, as when I'm listening to the Freeways' debut, I buckle under the anxiety and dock their score for inhabiting the sonic coke den of established psych-rock outfits who are themselves unapologetic late-'60s throwbacks. It's as if they'd invited themselves to a party that fizzled out hours ago but had brought excellent metaphorical hash to share with anyone who's still awake. Considering what the local quartet accomplish within the Black Rebel Jonestown Massacre template on their first try, we can expect superior material down the line. On "Country," co-vocalist Karen Zanes summons the ghost of Nico and teaches it to quit being so deadpan. There's a pleasant aroma of menace detectable in the muddy garage haze of "Love Is a Sick Thing," and the up-tempo spin on the Warlocks' "Shake the Dope Out" trumps the original. Which means the Freeways have got off to a better start than the Warlocks did.....-Barry Thompson.. ....Terrascope (UK) had this to say in their August Rumbles.... .. Debut albums are welcome and interesting, and the eponymous release of Boston's psychedelic garage band ..The Freeways.. can certainly be so described. Taking one part vintage pop-psych, one part garage thrash and one part US road trip, the album conceptually journeys from east to west, beginning basic and fuzzed-out with tracks 'Whenever You Want Me' and 'I'll Take It,' before progressing to more swirly fare like their cover of The Warlocks' 'Shake The Dope Out.' Karen Zanes' light voice contrasts with the buzzing guitars and battered drums, but on the quieter 'Country' she is given more space to emote, alongside a tasteful Hammond organ - an album highlight, this cut. 'Casa Loma' again has a more West Coast feel, with particularly evocative guitars. Groovy track 'Glass Eye' really digs the vintage vibe, while the superb concluding cut 'End Of Summer' is a joy. The latter songs rather outshine the former, but this is nonetheless a good release... .. -Simon Lewis.......buy our cd on Bandcamp (http://www.thefreeways.bandcamp.com), iTunes or a hard copy at CD Baby.
The Freeways: The Freeways
The

Login

Forgot password?

Need an account? Sign up