The Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest

With an album cover and various samples referring back to a similarly titled album done as a tie-in to the Seattle World’s Fair, the Young Fresh Fellows kicked in their career with the brisk and crisp New Wave delights of Fabulous Sounds. It was also the first album released by producer Conrad Uno’s PopLlama label and was as much a definer of Seattle place and time as Deep Six or Sub Pop 200: hooky immediacy well and clearly produced, with highlights including the lightly Cajun-touched “All Messed Up” and the sassy harmonies of “A Humble Guy.”