The Ferocious Few

At the time of releasing Juices in 2010, the band was a duo consisting of singer and guitarist Francisco Fernandez and drummer Daniel Aguilar. The band name was chosen because it "takes a ferocious few" to change the world, according to Fernandez.^[1]

Their debut album Juices was released on Birdman Records on April 13, 2010.^[2] In an extensive review, Allmusic saw The Ferocious Few as a blues band; "messed-up, fractured, big-city blues". Commenting on the band only being two people, Deming stated that "the strength of Fernandez's voice, which sounds like it's been polished to a rich semigloss by repeated applications of whiskey and nicotine, certainly covers a lot of ground, as does his strong, elemental guitar work and Aguilar's drumming". Overall, Juices was "a killer debut from a band worth watching".^[3] PopMatters gave the album a 6 rating. The album had a distinct street feeling, and it was "hard not to want to roll down the windows and ride along". Fernandez' voice was described as a "sun-cracked drawl", evoking soul and emotion, though his "delivery starts to wear out a bit as Juices presses on". The recording was lo-fi, and might have benefitted from "a tiny bit more polish despite the band’s wise choice to skip out on full-fledged luxury detailing". There was also elements of "trying to show off everything they can do when they would probably be better off focusing on their evident strengths".^[2]

The music on Juices has also been described as "the best of whiskey-soaked blues, rock and a hint of lo-fi skuzz". The second half of the album was markedly more "vintage" than contemporary; all in all "an overly solid debut album".^[4] Another reviewer praised "the raw, unholy, heavenly pure rock & roll" and the "nasty, raunchy blues"^[5]

Francisco Fernandez later relocated to Berlin. He continued The Ferocious Few with different drummers.^[6] In the late 2010s, Fernandez moved to Luxembourg. Here, he released the first music by The Ferocious Few in a decade.^[7]