The Makes Nice

Sometimes I wonder how I'd survive without WOXY.com. Aside from playing great music 24/7 (hell, they just played a 764-HERO song -- how cool is that?!), they're always introducing me to great new bands.

My latest WOXY discovery is a band called The Makes Nice from San Francisco. For lack of a better term, I'd call the band's sound that of pure, unadulterated lo-fi garage-y power-pop bliss. Never said I was a musicologist, folks.

I wish I could tell you more, but the band doesn't seem to have a website, and the only somewhat useful thing that their label, Frenetic Records, has to say is that the lead singer used to be in The Fucking Champs. The label's page for the band also has this unbelievably useful description of the band:

The Makes Nice fucking explode with music. Do you like Freakbeat Nuggets2 Kinda Stuff? Fuck off, of course you do!! LesFleurs de Lys, Creation, Small Faces, Pretty Things, The Who, Cindermen, Light, Tomorrow, Idle Race, Powder, SRC.

Yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah. Psychedelic Pop Power's blinding assault of Massive Pop Power. Soaring,Wilson-esque vocal harmony. Bashing Keith- Moon-on-11 drums. Giant Jeff Beck fuzz shred solos. Power, power, power trio.

So, err, yeah. Check out the four great songs at the band's MySpace page. I'll be downloading the band's album, Candy Wrapper and 12 Other Songs on eMusic tonight, and will hopefully have more to report soon.

Edited to add: You can stream the entire album here.