| Gildon Works / Artful Rifle |
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| Album: | Artful Rifle | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Gildon Works | Added: | Oct 2009 | |
| Label: | Self-Release | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| 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 |
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| Be Sharp Reviewed 2011-02-22 | ||
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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 |
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| 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 |