***NOTE: I realize (just as you do) that this band ain't really "history" yet, but they play kickass Chicago punk rock and this just happens to be the perfect time for a write up. Quit yer whining.***
Have you ever seen street people huddled around a barrel fire on a cold December night? You know, a few disheveled guys with shabby winter coats. Their stained & mismatched gloves with the fingers cut off holding bottles in brown paper bags. The glow of the blaze illuminating their dirty faces. At their party, The Falcon is their soundtrack.
Comprised of current members of The Lawrence Arms and Alkaline Trio (Rise Against's original guitar player played on their first EP), The Falcon is the latest band to fall from the Slapstick family tree. They throw ska, cock rock, and hillbilly c&w into a punk rock blender and mix it with Old Style and cheap whiskey. Their debut album is called Unicornography and (simply stated) it is f&^%ing fantastic. It is snotty, trashy, and fun.
The electric guitars oftentimes sound like shit, the playing is sloppy, and Brendan's vocals can be off-putting and are as irritatingly horrible as they have ever been, but I totally love it. While their 2004 God Don't Make No trash... EP was good, it is the strangely perfect addition of acoustic guitar to the mix that takes The Falcon's sound on Unicornography to a whole new level. The songs are catchy like a venereal disease and (as stated before) way more fun. How can music be gritty, bouncy, quirky, and well-written all at the same time? I dunno, but I just can't help but smile when listening to this record.
I also find it almost laughable (and frighteningly sad) that a band that's virtually unknown outside of Chicago and that began as a less-than-serious side project may have (quite possibly) released the best punk rock record of 2006. Unicornography is out now on Red Scare Records.
MP3 | The Falcon - The Lazyboy 500 Unicornography
MP3 | The Falcon - Scratching Off The Fleas Unicornography
2 Comments ↓
This band is amazing it's on high rotation thru the mp3 player atm.Love the song blackout im all the way from geelong australia so you never know they may get some recognition!
I'm having a pretty great time reading through these Chicago Punk history things. As for The Falcon, I'm not into any of the bands that they come from, so I'm not really into The Falcon. I do know a huge amount of people who are insanely jealous of me that I went to the Red Scare fest at the Metro last October and actually saw these guys, and I didn't even appreciate it! It's a ton of fun to always have that to rub in people's faces.
Keep these up, I'm having a great time reading them.
Bill
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