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Fast Product

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About Me

By James Dunn , Fulcrum Press:
Fast Product isn't an easy band to describe. And it's futile to compare them to any other band past present or...... future. You just can't box them in like that. And what's the point.....what is "genre"? What is ......"music"? I mean I guess you could say they're Victor Borge meets Throbbing Gristle. Or Johnny Thunders meets Kin Korn Karn from the 8 bit Nintendo version of Pro Wrestling. Or, Wallace Shawn and Darby Crash sit down to lunch and order ball bearings and milk and their waiter is Laurie Anderson. Or, they're like an episode of Quantum Leap where you find out who Ziggy is and Ziggy is really Screaming Jay Hawkins.Once I was walking in a park and I saw these birds splashing in the water and they turned and looked at me and I swear to god one of them said "Fast Product". The wind that day sounded like Samhain circa November Coming Fire (you know that one song Moribund? Like that.) and the sun shone down that day like Chip Davis of Manheim Streamroller. The crunch of the grass under my feet evoked a feeling of owning a rare 7-inch of the song "Fourteen Cheerleader Coldfront" where it's just Tobin Sprout playing the song on a squeeze box. The day after that felt kind of like Fast Product sounds.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/18/2005
Band Website: fastproductmusic.com
Band Members: cyndi: guitar, vocals
greg: guitar, organ, vocals
john: drums

Influences: you
Sounds Like: Their Tall Coin EP, which is available in Chicago at Reckless Records, or order from them directly online. Or send an email to [email protected] with Tall Coin in the subject.
and this: fp live feb 2007

Authorities have been consulted
Pure catchy rock. The six songs that appear on the band’s debut EP stray away from formulas and sound distinctively different.
-- Love, Chicago

This Product is Fast becoming one of my favorite CDs. Great rock singing with smart lyrics and seductive music make this platter matter.
-- Roctober

The jousting guitars on tunes like "The Time We Killed" and "Xenophobia" make a satisfying clatter, like when you shake the shit out of a can of spray paint.
-- J. Niimi , Chicago Reader

The band, fronted by Cyndi Elliott, seems to mostly offer energy in the form of driving, hard-edged rock tunes. Behind her sometimes wailing, sometimes tuneful voice (which is equally powerful in both registers), is the angular guitar-work of Greg Hamilton stacked on top of the jumpy drum beats of John Roeser.Together, they have a beautiful potential for disarray, for anger expressed in concise, deep strokes, for loud noise that you still want to hear even though it hurts.

The highlight of their Myspace page is the snide "Don’t Remember Law School," which begins with foreboding quiet and climbs into the disarray Fast Product does best. When Cyndi shouts "Goddamn lawyers taking over/ gonna call up everyone did you [no] wrong," it’s enough to make you glad you never took the bar exam. Unless of course you have, in which case you should probably give it a listen in hopes of repentance.
-- Joey Rubin for the about.com music guide [excerpt]

..."Nicer" is all super-charged syncopated blasts, with Cyndi Elliott’s voice sliding smoothly from melodic singing to piercing yelps against the Farfisa and stabbing guitar riffs. There’s a vague hint of Fugazi in the guitars of "Don’t Remember Law School," which intertwine to create delicious friction.
-- Patrick Conlan, Illinois Entertainer

"Great pictures. It recalls a day when men waited too long between haircuts and wore it well."
--Lisa Crystal Carver of Suckdog, Rollerderby, Drugs are Nice , etc.

Record Label: Semiotic Idiot
Type of Label: None

My Blog

the girl ghetto

oh don’t get me wrong i love it. check out this playlist/listen to this radio show...it’s all tidy and neat--some choices a little too predictable but not bad. au pairs and crass, and esse...
Posted by Fast Product on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:21:00 PST

Chicago, this Saturday!

Hey.It’s been awhile since that Fall covers show, and we’ve got lots of new songs, so come thaw out with us and our comrades the Titmice this Saturday! (There’s another band, called ...
Posted by Fast Product on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:57:00 PST

PUNK PLANET SHOWCASE AND RELEASE PARTY BLOWOUT

PUNK PLANET SHOWCASE AND RELEASE PARTY BLOWOUTFebruary 25 Benefit Features Bands, Comics, and Zines (Like the magazine itself)Chicago, IL On Sunday, February 25, Punk Planet magazine willcelebrate the...
Posted by Fast Product on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:06:00 PST

Officially Political

We love Neil Young. I love his Living With War record.  So we were glad to join the company of almost 1000 other musicians and submit our track "The Time We Killed" on Neil Young's Living With Wa...
Posted by Fast Product on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:56:00 PST

Fast Product of the Week

Hey look! Fast Product is myspace band of the week. Not sure how distinctive that is--afterall, this ain't no Brooklyner hipster's blog that thinks it's indie but only reviews label releases--but it s...
Posted by Fast Product on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:25:00 PST