Grex / Second Marriage
Album: | Second Marriage | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | Grex | Added: | Nov 2011 | |
Label: | Self-Release |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2012-02-25 | Pull Date: | 2012-04-28 |
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Week Ending: | Mar 4 |
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Airplays: | 3 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Dec 28, 2016: | Oh Messy Life
Bip-Bop |
3. | Mar 01, 2012: | American Beauty
Anything For You |
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2. | Mar 01, 2012: | Nathin' To Do
Up Popped The Snake |
4. | Feb 29, 2012: | The Fall of Math
The Whole World Window |
Album Review
Wedge
Reviewed 2012-02-18
Reviewed 2012-02-18
Pop that's cerebral and prog-like, with nice melodies and bursts of noisy guitar. Chamber-pop duo that uses elements of prog, folk, modern classical, and, yeah, big noisy guitar. Performed by the Bay Area husband-and-wife duo of Karl Evangelista and Rei Scampavia, plus various guests (drums or sax on many tracks, e.g.). No FCCs detected.
Warning: WIDE dynamic range, i.e., really quiet parts followed by really loud parts. DJs, watch your levels as you play this one.
1- Spastic noisy guitar juxtaposed with calm sweet vocals.
2- Bouncy slowish guitar; very delicate vocal line
3- Quiet, slightly sinister pop. Catchy, careful, low-key groove, a bit proggy. Some chamber-y free improv.
4- Low-key, morose pop. Sublime jazzy guitar solo.
5- Pretty instrumental (fans of very early Genesis take note)
6- Slow-moving: Gentle and pretty instrumental, some nice piano and guitar figures. Quiet, creeping vocals.
7- Gentle, pretty song (with loud buzzy guitar).
8- Neat instrumental, gets into a cooking tiki-room feel, w/sax
9- Pretty sunrise melody; searing acid guitar
10- Folky pop. Listen for the change in mood in the lyrics!
11- Dark Western-style ballad, gets into a long frenzied guitar solo. Very cool stuff, and it does seem to be about Eric Dolphy.
12- Slowish, eerie.
Warning: WIDE dynamic range, i.e., really quiet parts followed by really loud parts. DJs, watch your levels as you play this one.
1- Spastic noisy guitar juxtaposed with calm sweet vocals.
2- Bouncy slowish guitar; very delicate vocal line
3- Quiet, slightly sinister pop. Catchy, careful, low-key groove, a bit proggy. Some chamber-y free improv.
4- Low-key, morose pop. Sublime jazzy guitar solo.
5- Pretty instrumental (fans of very early Genesis take note)
6- Slow-moving: Gentle and pretty instrumental, some nice piano and guitar figures. Quiet, creeping vocals.
7- Gentle, pretty song (with loud buzzy guitar).
8- Neat instrumental, gets into a cooking tiki-room feel, w/sax
9- Pretty sunrise melody; searing acid guitar
10- Folky pop. Listen for the change in mood in the lyrics!
11- Dark Western-style ballad, gets into a long frenzied guitar solo. Very cool stuff, and it does seem to be about Eric Dolphy.
12- Slowish, eerie.
Track Listing
1. | Bistellar | 7. | The Whole World Window | |||
2. | Stump Fuckers | 8. | Bip-Bop | |||
3. | Up Popped The Snake | 9. | Down | |||
4. | Be Jelly | 10. | Anything For You | |||
5. | Small Sad Creature | 11. | The Ballad Of Eric Dolphy | |||
6. | Ouroboros | 12. | Omicron Persei |