And That Will Make You Happy

I am a lucky man.  I love music.  I have surrounded myself with friends who also love music.  We make music, we study music and most importantly, we listen to music.  We always have and likely always will.  We still go to concerts and have become the old people we used to see at concerts when we were younger and hope we would become in our older years.

It is for albums like Fang Island's eponymous second album released a few weeks ago that I am glad this is the case.  My friend Bob was good enough to turn us on to their video for the song Daisy.  He said if you were depressed to watch the video to cure yourself of said depression.  He was right.  The video is a happy romp to a happy song.  The lyrics are sparse.  In fact, they are more woah-woah's than lyrics.

I have been listening to this album for three days now and have fallen in love with it.  It starts off with the instrumental Dreams of Dreams accompanied by the sound of fireworks.  Who doesn't become instantly happy around fireworks?  No one, that's who.

Aside from Daisy, the album's fist single and tour de-force, the songs Davey Crockett, The Illinois and The Welcome Wagon prove especially satisfying.  Fang Island is only 10 songs and 31 minutes but it packs quite a wallup in it's short running time.

Fang Island are currently on tour including three shows this weekend at SXSW.  I hope their live show is as impressive as their recorded work.  I hope to find out first hand.

I give Fang Island Four Billys