The Figgs
By user • Feb 1st, 2009 • Category: Band Bios
There’s that gray area where black meets white, that taste where oil and vinegar blend, that divide where north becomes south, and that tiny pocket of music where grunge meets guitar pop. It’s in this little burst of mid-’90s music history that New York’s Figgs have thrived — even before there was such a thing as grunge and long since the genre’s demise. Forming in 1987, the Mike Gent-led ensemble always has been at its best when sprucing up the thick, crunching chords that were synonymous with the mid-tempo dirge of the early Clinton Administration with a studious appreciation for all things power-pop. This dichotomy is as perplexing as it is compelling, and with Gent’s third solo LP due out this month and another Figgs album anticipated by summer’s end, it’s a time-tested formula that might become more prolific than ever.
Chicago Innerview Magazine, February 2009
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