Perhaps the most interesting aspect of The Fake Accents is their ability to make their inherent contradictions seamlessly coexist. One might not expect that the same band who records and listens to their own practice sessions would also write a disclaimer on their first album that most of the songs that they’d written were actually just ripped off of other songs. Their songs are identifiable by both their catchy hooks and their noisy guitar riffs. They will rip on and revere their musical heroes or peers over the course of the same sentence. They would just as soon laugh at themselves although their combined musical knowledge can put many music geeks to shame.
Although nothing brings these seemingly paradoxical parts of their group personality quite like their high-energy live show, they’ll be heading into the studio next week to record the follow up album to 2006’s The Big Disconnect. Three of the four Fake Accents sat down with us, confirming that these new tracks will still have echoes of The Fall and Pavement while expanding on their simultaneously discordant and indie-pop friendly tunes.
Visit The Fake Accents online at: myspace.com/thefakeaccents
See them next: December 5th at the Velvet Lounge with Pink Reason and Psychedelic Horseshit
Buy their album at: Crooked Beat, CDepot in College Park, The Rough Trade Shop in London
Questions for singer Zack Richardson, drummer Pete Smith and bassist David Johnston:
How did you guys all meet each other?
Zack: Dave [Malitz] Pete & I all met at WMUC at University of Maryland which is the radio station there. We all did that for a long time.
Pete: I’m a registered fill-in there still.
Zack: But the three of us met at WMUC and then we actually met Dave [Johnston] through…was it last.fm?
Dave: Very nerd-tastic. I was floating on the internet. I like the Fall, it’s on the top of my list. And [Dave Malitz] was like, “This is very funny! You like The Fall and your name is David! I like the Fall and my name is David, too!” Then I met these guys when Pete DJed at The Galaxy Hut. I went along and got quite quite drunk. Don’t remember what I said but you guys needed another bassist.
Pete: We were looking for a new bassist and Dave [Malitz] told this Dave [Johnston] that we were looking and Dave was like, “Oh I play bass,” and then he went and learned all the bass parts to all the songs on our album. And we were like, “That’s flattering in the way that no one else in the world is ever going to do this.” And the rest is history. Well, we had another bassist for three years.
