For their second (professionally recorded) EP, released on Friday (7.27), Fanno Creek revisited some of the material they played as the band first came together; written between 2008 and 2010, the five songs featured on End Is End are a lovely marriage of early Shins influences and that youthful urge canalised in the full, rich sounds of Green Houses, which now comes swinging out, unleashing the cheerful energy of this little record ‘for the fun’, offered for free on bandcamp. Faster than any of Fanno Creek’s earlier releases, End Is End takes the band’s folk-rock aesthetic further into tones of rock and roll and foot-stomping alt-country. What an afwul cover, though. You can see the trio perform on August the 7th at Mississippi Studios. – Tracy Mamoun
