"While the Young Fresh Fellows have often displayed a gleeful sense of eclecticism on record, jumping from style to style as they skip from one tune to the next, I Think This Is is an unusually focused and coherent-sounding set; though the songs reflect the Fellows` wide-ranging tastes, from the peppy `60s pop of "Go Blue Angels Go" and the semi-disco vamp of "The Ballad of the Bootleg" to the punk-leaning snap of "Shake Your Magazines," and the garage rock snarl of "Let the Good Times Crawl," with Hitchcock behind the board the recording has a uniformly crisp and centered sound, as Scott McCaughey`s and Kurt Bloch`s guitars dominate the mix, and the melodies drive the performances instead of playing tricks with the arrangements to give each track its own sound. Since McCaughey has been devoting much of his time to his other band, the Minus 5, and playing as a sideman with R.E.M., it should come as no surprise that many of the songs on I Think This Is sound more like McCaughey`s work for other acts than his previous work with the Young Fresh Fellows; the quality of the songs is uniformly good" - AMG. O.G. Seattle rockers and the reverends of the irreverent the Young Fresh Fellows are back with I Think This Is, their first full album since 2001, and 25 years since the release of their ground-breaking first LP, Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest. Before grunge and way before indie was so indie, Fellows Scott McCaughey, Tad Hutchison, Jim Sangster and Chuck Carroll (and later, Kurt Bloch) were issuing their signature shotgun blasts of punk energy and wry lyricism. I Think This Is is no exception. Produced by Robyn Hitchcock, the album is a compendium of punk, college rock and 60`s pop, from the propulsive guitar rawk of ``Shake Your Magazines`` and ``After Suicide,`` to the psych-tinged melancholy of ``The Guilty Ones`` and ``Never Turning Back Again.`` With I Think This Is, the YFF remind us that two guitars, bass and drums, plus a barrel of beer is still the perfect recipe for success. Or maybe failure. But that`s cool.
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