Fresh & Onlys
Play It Strange

The Fresh & Onlys are from California, and the opening song of their debut album is called ‘Summer Of Love’, but don’t break out the Beach Boys compar...

Some bands begin with their masterpiece and take a few albums to fizzle out and finally call it quits. Other bands take a few albums to mature, to fin...

Nobody gets credited for "echo" on this San Francisco quartet's remarkably mature second album, but that's an oversight. Play It Strange is suffused w...

The Fresh & Onlys are certainly fresh, but I don’t know that they’re only anything. Aside from being pretty expert aesthetic blenders, they are also g...

This San Francisco band went into an actual studio for their 3rd album and ended up with a cleaner, crisper (but far from over-produced) sound that fi...

You'd have to dig real deep to find a harder-working band in the American indie underground than San Fran's The Fresh & Onlys. Just two years into the...

There must be something in San Francisco’s water. Prolific, under-the-radar bands like Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees are cranking out strong psych and ga...

San Francisco's Fresh & Onlys are already on album number three, in their third year of existence but it really is a first for them, as Play It Strang...

This has been a banner year for San Francisco's Fresh and Onlys: a U.K. tour with Deerhunter, an invitation (via Matt Groening) to play All Tomorrow's...

While I could never bring myself to say that I’m disappointed by the new, third, Fresh & Onlys full-length, Play It Strange, it’s fairly easy for me t...