Gertie Fox 'An Imaginary Meeting in the Woods ' album

Gertie Fox is a group of four L.A. guys who channel the twang of The Band and The Byrds with the modern unkempt fortes of legends like Built To Spill and Archers Of Loaf. In-fact, if the U.S. needs its own Wolf Parade, Gertie Fox may be able to take on that task, but there's a certain sense of restraint and general comfort in the music that sets this quartet apart from the pack. If the sunny daydream haze of Grandaddy was your blanket at night, Gertie Fox's An Imaginary Meeting In The Woods may help ease the mourning and introduce you to a new band of soothing string-pluckers that make laid-back pop for the college set.

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One part Todd Calvert, one part Ian Capilouto, add some Matthew Molchany and a dash of Joseph Martin and you have the recipe for Gertie Fox. More than mere separate ingredients working together, the ingredients comprising this rock n' roll band are the seemingly divine culmination of four kids sprung from two sides of the country--Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Orange, California. With one EP and two full-length releases, to know them is to hear them.
At first listen, you've got a rock band with tasty musical chops, deliciously smooth hooks and an undeniable pop sensibility, but on second listen a dialogue with someone familiar opens up to the listener. This recipe of life is a combination of being in love and then finding yourself alone, living in one place only to cross the country to another, being on the road with friends and facing hardships together while Gertie Fox smoothes your woes and affirms, "It's ok, bud." Guitars slide like the longest of highways on a chilly night or warm you up like the sun sweating in the west coast beaches on an idyllic summer day.

Gertie Fox is the working man's band, and just like their Pennsylvanian namesake work tirelessly in the name of the common good and rocking out. Gertie Fox is a band that appeals to blue collar folks, college-aged beer drinkers, rich kids, bike-riders, surfers, intellectuals, hipsters, and the rest because, as they'd be apt to tell you, the point is to get everyone together having fun. These four guys--Todd, Ian, Matt and Joseph--want to see you dance with a huge smile on your face and take home the memory of good times and the notion that we're all in it together.

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Gertie Fox - An Imaginary Meeting in the Woods