SECRET FUN CLUB + BrooklynVegan

"The cover is pretty faithful to the original, but SFC do it well and give it a little of their own twist."
- BrooklynVegan

Listen to Secret Fun Club's cover of Fugazi's "Sweet and Low", via BrooklynVegan, here.

San Diego‘s Secret Fun Club has been the longstanding musical outlet for drummer and engineer Sal Gallegos (Some Girls, Three One G) and bassist John Rieder. An ongoing collaboration that formerly included guitarist Nathan Joyner (Hot Nerds, Some Girls, All Leather), the band has been making odd, challenging, and relentlessly heavy music on its own terms since 2000.

A duo of bass and drums since 2007, Sal and John began writing, demoing, and performing brutal new arrangements for two solid years, finally recording what would become the Three One G LP Skull With Antlers during the first half of 2009. With drums that call to mind Bonham (if he had preferred meth to booze) playing sides of beef and bass tones that alternate between motorcycle rumble and insectoid modulation and filtering, the band has mastered doomy, frenetic noise with occasional forays into quiet minimalism and copy-and-paste sound sculpture. For their most recent album, 101, W.T. Nelson (Geronimo, Bastard Noise) collaborated with his brood of Trogotronic outboard gear, along with equally brutal noisemakers Justin Pearson (Dead Cross, The Locust, Retox, Planet B), Sam Lopez and Esteban Flores.

For the release of Fugazi cover “Sweet and Low”, in addition to the usual lineup of Gallegos on drums and Reider on upright bass and second guitar, SFC enlists further assistance from original member Nathan Joyner on guitar and Nathan Hubbard on Rhodes piano and vibraphone.
Buy the track, here.

Secret Fun Club recently released a full-length album via Three One G, 101 . Order, here.

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