Fruited Planes

***"Fruited Planes are a contemporary Portland, OR band. Their debut cassette release––Introducing The Moth Eggs (2024 Curly Cassettes)––introduced the sound they’ve now honed on Dismal Nitch, their first vinyl release. Dot Dash Sounds, a NY label run by Tom Hyland (WFMU dj) was smitten enough by the cassette to get this LP out. This is guitar music first and foremost. The album production is aces! Think back to the halcyon days of smogged out sunsets in Los Angeles circa 1967-68/ 1981-84, the soundtrack to those lysergic fueled happy hours, Fruited Planes nails a perfect nexus of the former era via The Seeds/Love/LA nuggets and the latter via The Rain Parade (David Roback era), Gun Club, X, 100 Flowers, with the melodic hooks of the Kendra led Dream Syndicate locked in arms with the first coupla Green On Red LPs and you’re getting the vibe. Now, add a heaping dose of Dan Tracey’s TVP’s via Kevin Ayers’ calypso hiccups and some bratty treble UK Messthetics soaked barks updated for the modern miasma of deception and gaslighting epoch we’re all muckin through.

The band is comprised of subterranean lifers Seth Bender (Marzipan/Pernicious Knifs), subunderground connoisseur Scott Derr (Monoshock/Black Jack Records/ Terminal Waste Band/ et al.), Michael Henrickson (Jackie-O MF/Evolutionary Jass Band/Eat Skull) and Jason Willmon (Mouth Painter/Barry Walker Unit). These gristled veterans can tear up it live too! They’ve got enough of that barn rock guitar juke joint swagger that would make the Panther Burns rubber neck. Hell, I’ve seen and heard them take a riff and go NINE miles high!"—Hisham Mayet, Sublime Frequencies, Bulbous Monocle)