Todd Kramer: guitar, mouth Anthony Coy: keys, samples, mouth Adam Untiet: guitar, mouth Frank Bitetto: percussion, mouth Travis Commeau: bass, mouth
Influences
Dredg, Tool, Radiohead, Mogwai, The Dresden Dolls, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, APC, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Rammstein, Ani Difranco, The Postal Service, Nine Inch Nails, Gustav Klimt, Lucian Freud, Terry Gilliam, George Romero, Francis Bacon, Milan Kundera, Being stuck in shitty surroundings...
Sounds Like
A Perfect Circle, Nirvana, The Cure, Helmet, Manson, Nine inch Nails, Dredg
You’re living in New Hampshire after getting your
degree in art from a respectable college and looking
to play in an equally respectable band, and now you’re
faced with starting off in a state never known for its
musical climate. What do you do? If you’re any of the
guys from Mistaken for the Gifted, you stick to your
guns and fight the good fight for immaginative rock
bands everywhere by playing an organic combination
that could be described as The Cure meets Helmet, or
Depeche Mode and Nirvana ’s love child, still drenched and
messy with the grime of birth all over its body.
You’d incorporate kinetic live shows that would belay
a DIY punk ethic, while combining it with a sort of
epic storytelling vocal style and a patchwork,
subjective lyrical style. You’d have a healthy respect
for dynamic range a la A Perfect Circle, and a love of
noise akin to Mogwai or Dredg. Lastly you’d include
the savvy aesthetic sense of 16 combined years of
higher education in art and make the whole package
cooperate with itself in print and on screen. That
should work, right?
The beginnings are humble enough; a guitarist (Todd
Kramer) gathers up a few guys he’s been playing music
with since high school (Travis Commeau, Adam Untiet
and Frank Bitetto) and when they’re all on break from
college, write music that they’d be proud of. Stuff
they’d be inclined to pay for as opposed to download.
When they finish school, they play whatever dive’s
they can manage, miraculously meet an interested
investor who throws them into a studio somewhere in
the un-mapped wilderness of New Hampshire and hands
them a bunch of money to pay the engineer with.
Luckily, said studio (Mojo Music) is also the home to
the largest independent radio shows on the planet, and
after a few nice tequilla drinks Mistaken for the
Gifted have maneuvered their way onto radio waves all
over the globe.
The Higgs Boson EP (the theoretical particle brought
into existence through a focussed exertion of energy;
the origin of gravity) is Mistaken for the Gifted’s
self-produced debut independent demo release. The
album shows a fair cross-section of a much larger body
of work, with “We Will Always Be Well” and “Letter of
Intent” giving a ride from vaporous, almost ethereal
rock soundscapes, climbing to the edge of a precipice
that a song like “Texas for Hire” throws you off of.
Even with dynamics like these, it’s only the
beginning. The lows get lower and the highs climb more
and more skyward on the host of tracks Mistaken for
the Gifted mix in at their live shows, reeling the
listener in to a simple, open gesture and then kicking
their knees out from under them just to remind them
where they are.
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