“The shattered-stained-glass-chewing guitar crunches and lyrical punches at hypocrisy within the world and self soar overhead. The words pierce ear and flesh with either the crooning and lilting/calming/confidence-inspiring voice of Joel Uram or the rough and tumble crow/yell/punchyouwithmymouthnoise voice of Daniel Jones. Precise and illusionary shifts between drum-machine and actual drummer Andrew Quackenbush open revelations and realizations about the state of our industrial/organic limbo and the struggle for either balance of both, or domination of one. All this, along with different synthesizers, delays, sound-mods, and a bit of unorthodox cymbal use, deliver that eclectic shift-rock sizzle pop that has become known, loved, and expected of the two-parts Portland and one-part Salem based rock trio known as symmetry/symmetry. Founded in the fall of 2006, Uram, Jones, and Quackenbush set out to portray their passions in music, doing what they love and all the while (whether knowingly or not) bucking convention and tearing the cookie-cutter forms of what's popular in modern music to shreds.
After weekly rehearsals spread across the span of a few months, symmetry/symmetry had their first handful of songs to rock the socks off of eager ears at their first show in November 2006. In February 2007, the band began to self-produce their debut EP, Love Breaks Light, a highly-anticipated project due both to the band's growing popularity and the two year wait for an actual release date. After a short post-recording lull, the trio began to play again so much that within nine months, the band had played over twenty shows.
After much waiting and anticipation, Love Breaks Light was finally released on January 30th, 2009. The EP contained the beautiful forwards/backwards intro/outro song which shares the same name as the album, as well as crowd favorites such as the beautiful techno-paced and melodic "Turn to Speak", the eerie and yet very catchy "Sweet As They (May)be", and the dark and solemn epic “Le Fin.”
Gaining acclaim and a sweet little spot within the heart of the Portland and Salem music scene, unsigned symmetry/symmetry has since gone on to play many shows in Washington, and has just returned from their March 2009 tour of the west coast with their friends in Brier Rose. Constantly brimming with new material, the self-proclaimed "Rock. It's. Just. Rock." trio is currently working on their all-new debut full-length album, which is sure to be full of the stumbling and agitated slams of rhythm, angst, guilt, hope, and love that we've come to expect from a band that has cut through the idea of image like light through shattered stained-glass so that their suffering love for this art can rift out through a creation that can be justly and rightly called "their own". Things worthwhile are not created unless done so with passion, and symmetry/symmetry is full of that, and then some.” – Jacob Davis (“pardon parcel”, and friend.)
Hey, thanks for the message. I really, really, wanted to catch the Kennewick show but it's been a hell of a month for me and long story short I've found myself without reliable transportation. Maybe I'll catch one of the PDX shows coming up. But, as always big ups, mad props, etc, etc.....laters.
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