Fuck. Okay, here's the story. I saw Fuck play a show a while before this interview. I was unimpressed, but several people said they loved their records and that the show was great after "getting into" said records. "Okay," I said, and filed that away. Not much later, Pardon My French, a new CD on Matador, arrives at Tape Op world headquarters and it's pretty damn great. The big bonus is that Kyle Statham, drummer, etc. for Fuck, owns a recording studio and has recorded all the Fuck material plus some other fine bands (like Snowmen). And, as it turns out, Fuck began as a recording project, and still build all their songs in the studio. A definite Tape Op kind of band. I cornered Kyle before a recent show in Portland where they played with the magnificent Two Dollar Guitar and put on a show themselves that I was much more "into". Rock on!

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