Fran - A Private Picture (Black Vinyl)

Fran - A Private Picture (Black Vinyl)The trick is to make a confession entertaining. A Private Picture, the debut album by Chicagos Fran, delivers a collection of extremely personal experiences that have been distilled and abstracted to the point that you can see yourself in their imagery, find analogs to your own emotional history in their scenarios when you hear them, its a conversation. Its therapy, if therapy was allowed to turn you on and make you shake what you got. At its core,

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through the world-weary vantage point of a group of friends that can’t stop coming back to each other

and gunshot sound effects

Following years of cultivating a dedicated fanbase across 3 self-released records

Committing fully to the symbolism

the project of Spirit of the Beehive’s Zack Schwartz and Corey Wichlin

the record is steeped in its own time warp of escapism

The excellent young trio of Sydney Chadwick (bass/vox)

Never flashy or glamorous

supporting intimate

” a track reminiscent of Duran Duran’s early ‘90s output in its fusion of dreamy guitars and authoritative mechanized beats