FREAKWATER "Fullerene" [Single] (Fluff and Gravy)
Add Date: 1/24/2023
Release Date: 1/20/2023
FCC: Clean
Formats: Non-Comm AAA, AMA, College Radio, Folk
Freakwater is an American alternative country band from Louisville, Kentucky, with one co-founding member living in Chicago. Freakwater is known for the lead vocals of Janet Bean and Catherine Irwin, who mix harmony and melody in idiosyncratic dissonant country-folk that is reminiscent of the Carter Family. "Anchored around the fragile and compelling harmonies of Janet Bean and Catherine Irwin and the subdued, oracular bass playing of Dave Gay, the utterly unique sound is distilled from many sources. There’s the elemental ache and loss in the soil and limestone of Kentucky, the songs and struggles that passed over and over the Atlantic from the British Isles centuries ago. There’s the energy and freedom in the ratty punk clubs of Louisville and Chicago at a time when rules and formalities were meant to be ignored.:"
The track "Fullerene" was released as the B-Side to the 7" single "The Asp and the Albatross" on Bloodshot records but was never released digitally until now. The 7" single is being reissued now by Fluff and Gravy.
The song was almost called The Allegory of the Cave. That title seemed too pretentious -- which is pretty hilarious in retrospect. A fullerene is a beautiful little carbon molecule whose shape resembles one of Buckmister Fuller’s geodesic domes. "