New - Fig Dish - Feels Like The Very First Two Times - LP

“Few groups have done the drunken, chaotic, ramshackle but insanely infectious Midwestern garage-pop thing better.” – Jim Derogatis, Chicago Sun-Times

“Able to conjure up a potent haze of slacker sloth and then obliterate it with a fierce rock assault…” – Ira Robbins, Trouser Press

“…almost every one of these songs will stick to your brain like musical super-glue.” – CMJ

“I would walk through a sniper’s alley to see this band live.” – Illinois Entertainer


You might be wondering how to reconcile such praise with the fact that you (or most of the people you know) have no idea who Fig Dish was. The metadata doesn’t lie, either; a recent Reddit thread was titled, “Fig Dish might be the least popular band of the grunge era according to Spotify.” Now, you should probably emphasize the “era” in the phrase “grunge era”—Fig Dish wasn’t grunge and were far more likely to be compared to midwestern bands like Cheap Trick, the Replacements, and Hüsker Dü. And like those bands, Fig Dish had a penchant for combining pop melodies, noisy guitars, and angsty lyrics.

So, who was this band that Chicago Magazine called “the folkloric Chicago outfit”? Let’s start with the name. Fig Dish...  more