Albums
Faces of the Night
2008
Release Date: 2008
By Andrew Gaerig
Reviewed May 21, 2008
After playing avant-pop that fused Brooklyn's best out-music tendencies and four-track bedroom twee, Flying now settle for careerist indie pop.
Movin' on up/ To the Upper West Side/ To that club gig show in the sky. It's a familiar script: Brooklyn quartet Flying broke out in 2006 with their self-recorded debut Just-One-Second-Ago Broken Eggshell, which crackled with the sort of electricity that occurs when too many kids-- well, three, anyway-- enter a room with too many instruments. What follows is a new label-- Menlo Park-- a sophomore effort, , recorded out of pocket at Illinois' Keyclub Recording Co., and presumably a larger touring profile. The hangup, of course, is Flying sound slower, denser, and less like a dynamic Brooklyn skewering of twee and more properly like wannabe residents of Athens, Geo., or Olympia, Wash.