Interesting band and an even more interesting story behind
it, if the story is true. Instead of being named "Falcon" after
the bird, the band was named after Jared Falcon, who happened to be an acquaintance.
The two main cogs in the band, Shannon Ferguson and Neil Rosen, attended
school with Jared Falcon in California. According to their bio, Jared Falcon
played baritone sax in the high school band and was a songwriting prodigy,
having composed one song a day for almost a year and recording it onto his
Fisher Price tape recorder. Jared Falcon was later institutionalized, but
Ferguson and Rosen have since found his tapes and are dedicating themselves
into bringing Jared Falcon's songs to life. Amamzing story, huh?
Now if all
this is true, it's a great fucking concept for a band. The idea of a band
that plays original music (as opposed to a tribute band) having a finite
point as to when they will run out of new material is an interesting idea.
Sure, as I mentioned, a tribute band would conceivably run into this problem
all the time but for a band which plays original music, I believe this
would be a first. Now, you could argue the band is a cover/tribute band because
they are not writing their own songs but playing songs by someone else,
but
that's a real slim thread as the songs they are playing have never been
released anywhere else, though techinically they are "covers" of someone
else's material. Quite interesting, really. If it isn't true and this is
just a made-up story, just some hype perpetrated by a manager-type, then
it is still brilliant but the resulting bad taste left when the truth is
discovered is going to cost them a bunch of fans.
Either way, I bet a ton
of amateur rock scribes are trying to find Jared Falcon as we speak.
If he turns out to be the Subway Jared, I am going to shoot myself! Anyway,
the
music on this EP is quite trippy, giving it a sort of Stephen Malkmus
or Flaming Lips type of vibe. It's not groundbreaking stuff, but it's decent
and I am curious as hell to see if they keep this concept going or not.
This
is worth it for the story alone, let alone the music
FALCON
