Ears Wide Open: Francisco the Man

Kevin Bronson on April 22nd, 2011

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Over the past three years, Francisco the Man has released music in dribs and drabs, with each EP expanding on the SoCal band’s vision. Here’s an endorsement for the band to release music more often: The indie-rockers’ newest two-song single goes for epic and hits it, at least with “Broken Arrows,” a cinematic 6-minute excursion with the expansiveness (but not quite the country flavor) of Band of Horses. Along with the gorgeous atmospheric and meditative “Franklin,” the second song, it’s testimony that Scotty Cantino and bandmates Nestor Romero and Abdeel Ortega have a good thing going, and maybe should accelerate their pace.