Listening to Fake Fruit’s Mucho Mistrust feels like having the answers. Like even if you are still figuring things out, ultimately you already know.
On their second full-length album, Fake Fruit takes their signature post-punk sound—multi-level guitars, keep-you-on-your toes drumming, D’Amato’s incredible lure-you-out-of-the-house-and-chew-you-up vocal range—and expands, polishes. This is on triumphant display with “Cause of Death,” with the core instrumentation buoyed by a huge bedrock of harmonies and woodwinds.
Fake Fruit’s music is so attractive because they sound fully formed and confident, but their repertoire remains equally dynamic and varied. They nail sassy cynicism while still expressing vulnerability and confusion. They don’t take their audience for granted: Every song is a fresh opportunity to connect and share the successful collaboration that this group embodies. All anyone wants is to do more of what they love, and get better each time, and Fake Fruit shows us how.
Mucho Mistrust is out now via Carpark Records. Fake Fruit is currently on a national tour, and they next play the Bay on Friday, November 22 at the Chapel.
