“I think we like to keep it tense. I think we like to keep a really healthy balance of, ‘Ohhh, everything could fall apart at any given moment.’” – Josh Lambert

“There is a kind of sense of falling backward that I think the songs conjure. Or blindly driving your car into a wall. A sense of sadness in all the amazing things in the world.” – Ben Shemie

The Fresh & Onlys’ music is known for being hazy. Taking cues from San Francisco’s historic psychedelic music scene, the band layers an aura of cloudiness on top of what essentially are good ‘ole pop tunes.

In 2009, Ben Sollee, with some help from Oxfam America, rode from his hometown of Lexington, Kentucky, to Bonnaroo Festival, playing shows in small towns along the way. Later that year, Sollee embarked on a 500-mile, 16-day tour along the East Coast Greenway during the frigid winter months.

“Why not?” – Brian Borcherdt

“Nothing holds up a process like an indispensable band member being both a perfectionist and a control freak. Especially when your band features three of these types.” – Danny Seim

“It’s hard; I want to live my life and have money, but it’s good to… question yourself… like, ‘Am I giving back enough?’ or, ‘Am I doing enough?’” – Merrill Garbus

“There are plenty of people doing completely novel, transgressive things, but no one knows because it is too esoteric or inaccessible.” –
Nika Roza Danilova

“I think the real problem is that people can become so easily fooled by jumping to the wrong conclusions or just oversimplifying things, or trying to find meaning in something that doesn’t exist or is meaningless.” – Dave Clifford

Space Labias and complete ridiculousness.