Famous

Seems like a perfectly good time to do another "new band search review" (or "NBSR" as it will now be refered to as) from twitter.  Famous, an alternative rock (/pop as their facebook says) band from Montreal is composed of; Michael Bellizzi on lead vocals, Devin Kelley on bass and vocals, Ricky Lovato on guitar and vocals, Myles Truax on guitar and vocals, Nick Martin on guitar and vocals, and Marc-Olivier on the drums. 

First off, they do NOT have a website and they have only a little bit of information about themselves on their facebook, which is "https://www.facebook.com/FamousOfficialMontreal" (their twitter is FamousMtl).  Also is seems as though their facebook page was only created Febuary 15th, so not even a month ago yet. (TO WHICH I LATER REALIZED WAS DUE TO FACEBOOK NOT LOADING THE BANDS PAGE FULLY, THEY'VE BEEN AROUND LONGER THAN THAT, APOLOGIES) And secondly, on their youtube channel, they only have three songs.  So this will be an interesting review of a band I've heard so little about.

Songs include; Angels, Baby I Can Keep Your Head Up, and Stripper.  This may only make sense to Canadians, but they sound very Eastern Canadian right off the bat in Angels and Baby.  I'm not going to explain what Eastern Canadian sounds like because I've been thinking about what it does mean and the more I think about it the less they sound like it, so I'm just going to move on.

In Baby I Can Keep Your Head Up, I'm really digging the bright accoustic then half way through the song the build up which out of that emurges these hard hitting few bars, then a few more of accoustic, then back to more rockesk as the few before, and that pattern kind of continues back and forth until the end of the song kind of thing.  I really like the usage and how they transitioned from one style to the next with such ease.  Plus their use of dynamics at the right times (as you can hear as the song builds and becomes louder and softer) just made the song even more pleasing to the ears. 

Lead singer Michael just fits the music and vise versa.  Great voice, great harmonies on the part of the other vocalists and other instruments.  I really enjoyed listening to these guys, but I think live will be where they absolutely blow you away (or atleast I hope so).  They seem like they'd just have a great energy to get up and dance and sing your heart out to.

Just because I only did the one song doesn't mean I don't love the other two, because that is deffinitly not the case.  You know those cheesy montages that teenagers do of the girl they love, thats what I think of when I listen to Angels, like I can see someone putting those type of pictures to the song.  But the songs more than that, it rocks hard enough to jump around to but I think also has that underline that an awesome rocker boyfriend could use for an awesome rocker girlfriend.  That last sentence probably made no sense at all, but fuck it, cuz it's actually a really awesome song that I like.  And Stripper is the hardest rockeskiest (rockeskiest???) of the three.  But as I've already said, I really hope these guys keep the energy from the album and apply it live because that would make for a fantastic show, no doubt about it.

Just by looking at the members of the band, and what they all contributed, my first thoughts were that because five of the six sing, the harmonies would become almost overcrowded.  But from those three songs, that was never the case.  It sounds like music.  That's all you can really say about Famous.  To me, they almost feel like that garage band you made in highschool, but took it to the next level.

I personally don't think they're ever going to have "stale" material.  They seem like over the years, as a band, they're going to grow and mature and just keep writting songs for the next decade or so.  That's how strongely I feel this band could and will succeed over the next years and I can't wait to heard all their material.

Taken from their facebook "Hey Everybody! We have a battle of the bands coming up Saturday March 9th at the venue O Patro Vys. We're going on at 9:00pm and playing for a half hour. Tickets are 12$ each if you get them off one of members of Famous and 18$ at the door.... Come out and help us make the semi final at Club Soda! Winner gets to go to Germany to play a festival and would give us some serious exposure which would honestly be the best thing ever! It would be amazing if you guys came out and supported us! Message us for tickets!"

My only concerns with Famous is the lack of information and songs avaliable at this current moment.  I'd really like to hear the rest of their material.  But from what I've read they do have an album set to release (hopefully quite soon) called, "The Most Alive You've Ever Seemed''
 
I truly do believe that Famous could be pretty big with the right publicity.
I would recommend giving these guys a listen and I really hope they play the roof off at Battle of the Bands.