are FIDLAR the best new rock band?

New track--well, really a new old track--from the upcoming album + interview:

http://exclaim.ca/Music/article/fidlar-west_coast

And another new track...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O_czrcaFA0

New album is terrific. "40oz. on Repeat" and "Sober," in particular, stand out on first listen.

lol, 8 months ago. understand why they'd get exactly 0 ilm traction tho.

spurred by scott's scott offerman thread, i just listened to their second album, too, which apparently came out last fall. it's good, really fucking dopey, but cheerful & catchy enough to excuse most sins of taste. and a hell of a lot more varied than i expected, with tons of clever, energetic songs polished to an appealing roughness. i would have loved it in my teens the way i loved the ramones, violent femmes, dead milkmen, the beastie boys and oingo boingo.

i've been wondering lately where to find this sort of rock today: nerdy as all holy hell but poppy enough for mainstream success, cartoon vibrant, iconoclastic, secretly ambitious and stupid smart. better than 21 pilots anyway.

There's a new Bad Sports album coming out soon, and that's one place I might look. I haven't heard it, so just crossing my fingers.

On second listen, this is basically the exact same riff from Cheap Beer. I'm big on Bad Sports as they seem to have potential to transcend the genre, but we all know what happened to the Replacements when they tried to do that. New Bad Sports album is out any day now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t27sBvLb3QY

I was very cynical and harsh at the beginning of this topic. Very rude and unnecessary of me. Apologies, Scott.

dig the bad sports & am psyched for new, but one of the things i like about the fidlar album is that it mostly sounds nothing like "garage rock" and was clearly made by actual children. kids deeply in love with their own childishness. there's no reverence for power pop, for vintage vibes, for much of anything, really. they give so few fucks that their fucklessness becomes a kind of super power. from song to song, i'm reminded of green day, weezer, eric's trip, beastie boys, sublime, ramones, squeeze, the exploding hearts, wavves, the beatles and everything in between. it's kind of breathtaking. and like old eminem, i can imagine it appealing to ill-behaved tweens everywhere.

at their most pop-punk formal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztlZq_qqu-4

wolf alice probably don't fit that description, but i love their songs. they are vibrant and ambitious and smart anyway. there is an underdog element to their songs too which kinda fits the nerd thing but has more to do with youth angst and sexual identity. but they aren't really rough at all.

and they aren't pop punk. more grunge pop.

but they are young and have pep and their videos are funny! and they sound nothing like the new radiohead album.

i only just heard them in the last week, yeah they are good! i had vaguely heard of them but probably never woulda checked them out 'cause their name sounds dumm.

i hadn't thought about this band in years, and then tonight i went to a show and saw a guy in a FIDLAR shirt and i thought, "huh ... right ... that FIDLAR band" (who i liked). and then i came home and this thread was revived. weird.

I hadn't thought about this band in years, and then last night I saw someone tweeting "Is there a band out there that fell off harder than FIDLAR? Second album was crap and it was a downward spiral from there." I loved their first album but I haven't heard a note since, so I don't know. Then I saw this thread revived.