Kevin Bronson on January 30th, 2011

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The true value of those best-of-the-year lists that some love to pillory is to alert you to music you’ve slept on, or dismissed too quickly. So a tip of the cap to anybody who mentioned the Fresh & Onlys, the San Francisco quartet whose cocktail of winsome jangle-pop and brooding psychedelia is stirring indeed. The foursome – originally scheduled to play Waved Out 2 in L.A. last year and then bowed out – has made three albums in only two years of existence. Last fall’s “Play It Strange” is 36 minutes of hazy splendor that references the ’60s but doesn’t plunder it; you might’ve seen this song posted elsewhere, but maybe not.

||| Download: “Waterfall”

||| Live: The Fresh & Onlys play March 22 at the Echo.

||| Watch: After the jump, check out the video for “Waterfall”:

Photo by Kristin Klein