ferns are green and good for you

ferns
fernsingle
(self-released cd-r, 2006)
www.myspace.com/fernfrens

i watched ferns performed "live" on monday at bar none and immediately snapped up this single. i didn't know it then but apparently, according to http://finishthealbum.blogspot.com, only 19 handmade copies were brought to the gig from malaysia. i hope they were all sold out because the single is brilliant. will kick myself if i did not own my own autographed handmade limited singapore edition of fernsingle.

after compulsively listening to them and only them for two consecutive days on repeat mode on the ipod, the ferns is definitely my favourite band of the universe now. sounding somewhat like a poppier version of fellow malaysian band furniture (my other favourite band of the universe...), the two songs on the single show great promise. disaster strikes again is an intricate little song that propels its sweet melody on mid-tempo drumbeats, before erupting in a midsection of hand claps and tambourine rings, that ends off in a sea of chiming guitar, electronic fuzz, and soft sighs and ahs. love in a handful of beans has singer warren's fey wispy voice amid an organic field of pulsing bass and swirling organ sounds.

offstage, the band seems like the songs they play, a mix of goodness, shyness, affability and intelligence. they have been working on their first full-length album for ages and it is scheduled for release this july. do not disappoint your fans. abby, dave, meng, boon and warren, please please please finish the album.