{"id":484,"date":"2005-09-15T02:14:33","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T07:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/?p=484"},"modified":"2013-12-22T00:00:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T00:00:44","slug":"peachfuzz-about-a-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/music\/2005\/09\/peachfuzz-about-a-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Peachfuzz: About a Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2005\/09\/peachfuzz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2005\/09\/peachfuzz-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Peachfuzz: About a Bird\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2005\/09\/peachfuzz-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2005\/09\/peachfuzz-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2005\/09\/peachfuzz-275x275.jpg 275w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2005\/09\/peachfuzz-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2005\/09\/peachfuzz-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2005\/09\/peachfuzz.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peachfuzz: About a Bird<br \/>\nLabel: Dionysus Records<br \/>\nRelease Date: 2003<br \/>\nReview Date: 9\/15\/05<\/p>\n<p>This is the third record from the LA based band Peachfuzz. I can\u2019t vouch for the first two, but About a Bird is a highly enjoyable surprise. Peachfuzz is a mix of 70\u2019s powerpop and 60\u2019s psychedelica. While not exactly derivative, they could have easily taken the place of the Plimsouls on the Valley Girl soundtrack, and that\u2019s not meant to be a slight to either of them. This is a best case scenario of Americans copying the sound of early British Invasion bands who were trying to sound like Americans in the first place. Fortunately Peachfuzz improves instead of merely parroting.  The production is really clean, and About a Bird is a great find. Standouts are the opening rocker So Why Not Now, ihe melancholy but still funny Save Us Tammy Faye and the title track, which appears to actually be about a bird. A sense of humor pervades the whole albu, increasing the fun without becoming too jokey. I don\u2019t know what kind of scene they have going in their own home town, but I\u2019m guessing they have a small army of stylish devotees. Did I just write &#8220;stylish devotees&#8221;?  Geez, I\u2019m such a wanker. Check out Peachfuzz if you are a fan of well-crafted pop songs.  I can\u2019t get their web site to come up, but for gods sake don\u2019t go to peachfuzz.org or you\u2019ll end up at the official fan site of Enuff Znuff.  Also, the Dionysus Records web site is not much help either, that thing needs some work.<\/p>\n<p>Online Action:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dionysusrecords.com\"> www.dionysusrecords.com<\/a><br \/>\nOnline Action: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peachfuzzusa.com\">www.peachfuzzusa.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peachfuzz: About a Bird Label: Dionysus Records Release Date: 2003 Review Date: 9\/15\/05 This is the third record from the LA based band Peachfuzz. I can\u2019t vouch for the first two, but About a Bird is a highly enjoyable surprise. Peachfuzz is a mix of 70\u2019s powerpop and 60\u2019s psychedelica. While not exactly derivative, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[206450,206452],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-dionysus-records","tag-peachfuzz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2005\/09\/peachfuzz.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skateandannoy.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}