Pixies, Tom Waits, The Replacements, Wilco, Gomez, Elliot Smith, Jeff Buckley, Elvis Costello, Hank Williams, Built to Spill, Tori Amos, Elbow, Henry Miller, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Radiohead, The Kinks, The Who, Charlie Kaufman, DJ Shadow, De La Soul, The Police, Hayao Miyazaki, Mirah, The Screaming Blue Messiahs, Modest Mouse, The Las, Blur, Spoon, Robyn Hitchcock, Grant Lee Buffalo, Grant Lee Phillips, Billy Bragg, XTC, J.R.R. Tolkien, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Delgados, Mom and Dad, Being Joe, Magic the Cat, Los Angeles, ashes on the horizon...
GRAVITY ENGINE'S SONG "THIS HABIT" WON THE INDIE /ALTERNATIVE CHANNEL ON OURSTAGE.COM!
Thanks to all of your votes and support, "This Habit" has taken the number 1 slot in Indie/Alternative in the November Ourstage.com competition! I owe it all to you! I have won a $100 gift card and a t-shirt! Woohoo! I know many of you spent a great deal of time on the site voting. I want you to know it is much appreciated! I can't say THANK YOU enough. So... one more time. Thank you!!
I have uploaded "Dracula" for the next few months' competitions. If you feel the urge to get voting again, here's the link to Our Stage!
Otherwise, I'll let you know if and when I need your votes for the Finals!
Thanks again!
Brad
Gravity Engine's self-produced debut E.P. is available NOW. It is called Hydrazine Morning and contains seven tracks, some of which are available for listening on this site. Get your copy from the links above.
Current Reviews of "hydrazine morning":
* * * * * (5 stars)
Gravity Engine brings the intimacy and soft strokes of folk to the power and emotional invitation of rock, supported by the thick, lush foundation of electronics, although used sparingly. Comparing itself to the likes of Grant Lee Phillips and Jeff Buckley, the collective quality amounts to so much more than these references, dancing the line between the jangly and the sonic, the warm and the edgy, the lush and the angular. While most elements in these songs are well-blended and integrated, there is a slightly textured feeling, a slightly off-set mixing of ingredients making for highlighted shape, shadows and differentiation. Whether you hear all those subtleties or not, this is simply great sonic, folk-informed rock.
So, the question I have is...Why isnt Gravity Engine on mainstream radio or TV? This CD is a very impressive piece of work that captures your imagination and soul from the first song A Million Places until the last song Boats in the Bath. Singer Brad Wilcox has a genuine voice that both captivates and haunts your audible senses, while the music allows you to flow along with the movements that are implanted into your sonic memory. Other top-notch songs include Poor Little Starstruck, My Projection TV, and Dracula. You can hear a strong influence from bands and artists like Radiohead, Neil Young, The Wallflowers and The Abandoned Pools without ripping them off or imitating them. Check out this CD if you like any of the people I have just mentioned or ones that are similar.
Infused with frustrated passion, Gravity Engine's debut release, Hydrazine Morning, is a meditative and introspective scrapbook that flows like a part of your subconscious. Its delicate melodies belie the emotionally-charged social commentary that drives the lyrics and each listening brings with it new revelations. Intentionally anti-pop, Brad Wilcox often dispenses with rhyming lyrics and still draws the listener effortlessly into a pleasant commiseration with his melancholia.
At its core, Hydrazine Morning is a scathing indictment of LA and the toll it has taken on Wilcox and the countless other seekers who have been pulled into its vortex. The city, like the carcinogenic rocket fuel the album takes its name from, has the awesome power to launch an individual to stardom, but an even greater potential to destroy. You feel the underlying depression but are forced to acknowledge Wilcox's determination and refusal to let it subdue him. He vows escape from the "Lethean faces" in the self-reflective This Habit and describes the hungry destruction of a star-crossed fame-seeker in Poor Little Starstruck.
The album's mesmerizing feel peaks with the hypnotic My Projection TV, a darkly pointed look at the material forces that drive our society and swallow up the individual - a recurring theme that resurfaces again in the ethereal simplicity of Boats in the Bath, in which we are assured that "still waters are pure, free from the poisons of art."
Sometimes the lyrics get lost in the measured timbre of the vocals, but don't give up on this one after one listen & it deserves a second, third and more, and each time it sinks in just a little bit deeper. Get yourself a Gravity Engine and let it bring you back to earth.
Also - check out heavy set prince. Brad sings and wrote lyrics on the track "Where are my Allies" (part b).
Also - "World Trembles" was recorded as Brad Wilcox for a 9/11 charity event organized by the Canvas Cafe in San Francisco. You can buy "The Canvas Remembers September 11" CD at CDBaby here. 100% of the purchase price goes to charities.
S T A N D T A L L . H E L M E T S & R I O T G E A R .
T H E M I G H T Y E N G I N E H A S S T A R T E D .
Hey gravity engine, How are you? I hope you are well. My girlfriend just directed my first music video. It's her first film. Let us know what you think! She also built my website and she's hot too! Guess I won the girlfriend lottery.
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4 track EP, titled Call Signs, it provides the perfect introduction to
the band prior to the release of their debut album, Grappling Hooks, in
early 2010.
North Atlantic Oscillation's "Hollywood Has Ended", from the forthcoming album Grappling Hooks, is featured in this month's Police Box compilation from TenTracks. It's here:
In case you haven't heard, TenTracks is a new music delivery service where you can buy exclusive 10-track compilations for £1, i.e. a mere 10p per track.
This month NAO are in the illustrious company of the excellent Found, Orkestra Del Sol, Fence Collective luminaries James Yorkston and King Creosote and exactly 5 others. Once again, that's £1 for ALL TEN TRACKS. Not bad, really.
Only for a few hundreds hours...I missed your Birthday...Well...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! If you don..t come visit me in Panamá I will come back to LA in November!!! Ciao amico mio! Paolo
I have my 1st ever video to the single 'Adeline' on You Tube - where I actually get to be a man....no idea how I would ever handle that facial hair daily! You can see the video here; www. youtube. com/noushskaugen
I'd love to give you the song 'Adeline' - if you like you can sign up to 'Backstage' on my site & I can send it to you? www. noushskaugen. com/backstage
I will be writing a weekly blog here on MySpace. Be sure to subscribe in order to receive all of the latest updates!
Hit me back with your news, hope everything is going great! Noush x
Aye up … just to keep you in the loop we are about to change line up shortly we have secured a female vocalist and we are trying out for a new bass player shortly. Stay in touch and let us know what you think as soon as we have the new members up. Its all cool our bass player/vocalist is going on to University… Don’t worry we aint going nowhere haha we will be back shortly … thanks for the support … hope to see you soon at a gig near you
We have a band mobile number now so if your bored and wanna txt us feel free its all cool the number is 07530 487447 its only a pay as you go so if it takes a while for us to respond don’t worry about it
Anyways I wont clog up your message board any more than I have to
Mmm...you are so yummy I just can't contain myself - even when half your face is cut off. It was obviously a problem with the camera (not the photographer). Smooch.
