Album Review: Fruits & Flowers Put A “Drug Tax” On Life & Love
Love can hit you with a quickness that makes you wonder if this virtuous force is actually an invisible truck; ramming though your heart with no care. This explains why Fruits & Flowers play to love with a frenetic quickness that makes you want to run around your room, toss your things, and yell at Love as if it were a madman. Thus, the funness of Fruits & Flowers pop-punk debut, Drug Tax, is that it makes Love appear like the sweetest bout of crazy you could ever sing up for.
Fruits & Flowers have captured the Bushwick music scene by creating music that smashes the grit and grace of being young and teetering between poesy and insanity. Sometimes, the difference between a genius idea and a foolish one are not apparent, which is where love comes in and songs such as, “Out Of Touch”, “Subway Surfer”, and “Down Down Down”. What makes Fruits & Flowers so refreshing as a group is that they capture the struggle to know when you are being wise or being an idiot. As you course through your life, from work, drugs, friends, lovers, and dreams, you try to sift through your decisions to see if you truly are going “anywhere”. It is in this approach, to the personal, inner struggles of being human, that Fruits & Flowers get their lyrical edge. From “Drug Tax” to “Pick Fairy”, they spew wit and truth as if their guitars were bungee jumps for such verses. Their songs have noir feels like, they are rolling their life in black and white film, and lead singer Caroline is the mysterious narrator. She causally creeps through lyrics as both tempted and taunted by her situations. Hence, she may appear nonchalant but she can rage like the best of punk legends especially in harmony with fellow guitarists Ana and Lyz. Together they form a triumvirate of ladies in boredom and bliss with city-life’s less than stellar love/ life options.
Being young, ambitious, and lost is pretty much that natural state of every rising youth. You burst with fantastical ideas that clash with harsher realities, and Fruits & Flowers show its better to be a dream than a bitter realist. Sure, the world is not great, but dreamworlds never fail to entertain. On June 30 Click Here To Buy Fruits & Flies Drug Tax.
