Gildon Works / Artful Rifle
Album: Artful Rifle   Collection:General
Artist:Gildon Works   Added:Oct 2009
Label:Self-Release  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2011-02-27 Pull Date: 2011-05-01
Week Ending: Mar 13 Mar 6
Airplays: 2 1

Recent Airplay
1. May 01, 2011: lost and found
Artful Rifle
3. Mar 06, 2011: anti-heroine: digitalization
Arcadium Ghost
2. Mar 12, 2011: Engineer Extravaganza
Arcadium Ghost, Forth But First
4. Mar 05, 2011: Music Casserole
Arcadium Ghost

Album Review
Be Sharp
Reviewed 2011-02-22
This six-member group from Philly plays a big electric/electronic sound (on this album released in Sep ’09). The singing is competent & sometimes interesting but not of primary importance: the vox is often buried down in the mix. Instrumentation is big and lush, includes electronic keyboards, drums, electric guitar.
No FCC issues.
Be Sharp’s Picks: It’s all playable;10 and 1 are the highlights.

1. ** Sweet. Synth-pop beat meets Pink Floyd singing. Spacey fade out. (4:16)
2. Up-tempo, driving beat. Lots of organ & drums. Not at all bad, but not a highlight. (4:32)
3. * Drummer starts a fast march; electric guitar, keybd & vox add layers of sound. (4:33)
4. Fast toe tapper. Lots of drum and synth to start. Vox enters mid-way. Try this after you’ve tried the others. (2:55)
5. Mid-tempo beat and big keyboard sound. Singer strains a bit in his high range. (2:31)
6. * Sounds more like a popular song, with the voice more pronounced & the melody more singable than the rest. (3:44)
7. Instrumental with lots of electric guitar, drums, and bass. Cool but very short. (1:20)
8. * The up-tempo rocker of the album. Electric guitar featured. Brit-pop-style vox. (4:32)
9. Fast, driving beat on drums & electric guitar. Vox incomprehensible. Short. (2:04)
10. ** A gorgeous little symphony of electric guitar, synthesizer, electronic sounds, and human vox. Mid tempo, richly layered, and pretty. (4:09)

Track Listing
1. Arcadium Ghost   6. Seen Pharoahs
2. Sight Unseen   7. Sideways
3. Forth But First   8. Wires With Fortune
4. Pity For The City   9. Exit Either
5. Sold So   10. Artful Rifle