The Favors

One Liner: Unknown band from Finneas and Ashe
Wikipedia Genre: No one knows, but likely terrible bedroom pop!
Home: Space and Time

Poster Position: Second Quarter - Line 7
Day: Friday
Both Weekends.

Miller Lite Stage at 5:00.

Thoughts:  The initial riff of the initial song made me smile.  This has got to be a famous person, for a band I've never heard of, playing classic rock, with only one 2023 album to their name, to be this high on the poster.  Only 880 monthly listeners, and not a single one of their songs even has a play count listed (which usually means they are under 1,000 streams).  But they are on line seven?  Seriously, is this David Bowie in a wig or something?  Hearing Bowie and Queens of the Stone Age-type psych rock vibes, and I dig it.

There is a British indie rock band on Wikipedia, but it is named The Favours.  But that is not this (I don't think?)  After digging on Reddit for a bit, several people say that this band that is on Spotify is not the real band and instead a new project between Finneas and Ashe is going to drop soon.  Finneas is Billie Eilish's brother.  Ashe, never heard of her.  So, I am actually kind of disappointed that we are not going to get this rad psych rock thing that I have been jamming for a while now.

Going to pause this review and come back to it, being that this is apparently a mystery that needs to unravel (i.e. they need to post some actual music to the world).

AAAAAAAND we're back.  For some truly uninspiring soft rock schtick!  Three songs.  The painfully named "Times Square Jesus," the adequately named "The Hudson," and the top track as of now, "The Little Mess You Made."  12.7 million streams.

Makes me think of that lame Billie Eilish album (can't recall if it was the most recent one, or second-to-most-recent, but whatever). Ashe is an American pop signer who is apparently best known for a 2019 single called "Moral of the Story" that appeared in a Netflix film.  She's got a strong voice, I can't fault that piece of this, I just find the songs to be entirely forgettable throw-back pop that I didn't want to be thrown back to.  It's like when the Arctic Monkeys decided to leave behind excellent rock and roll and make lounge act music for lost astronauts or whatever.  NAH.