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Album: Two Gallants
Released: Sep 25, 2007
Label: Saddle Creek Records

General Info

  • Genre: Rock

    Location San Francisco, Please select your region, Un

    Profile Views: 1291624

    Last Login: 1/14/2012

    Member Since 10/29/2005

    Website www.twogallants.com

    Record Label alive, saddle creek (us/europe), sideout (japan)

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    It was only a matter of time before San Francisco natives Adam Stephens (vocals, harmonica, guitar) and Tyson Vogel (drums, vocals) cemented a top-tier spot in the pantheon of Americana. With their fittingly eponymous record, they've at last fully realized the potential hinted strongly at in The Throes, What the Toll Tells, and The Scenery of Farewell EP. If these past records frequently evoke the dusty traditions of folk and punk--train-riding hobos, carefree wanderlust, buried and violent secrets--Two Gallants only hones this focus. True, the album regularly relapses into a similarity of key, tempo, rhythm, and interval: "Miss Meri," "The Hand that Held You Down," "Trembling of the Rose," and "Reflections of a Marionette," for example, play like an extended medley of variations on a single musical theme. But songs like "The Deader" and the rough, almost impressionistic "My Baby's Gone" exude singularly grabbing charisma. Stephens' every next vocal melody grittily evokes lament after tragic lament, and Vogel's drumming bursts forth in burp-gun flurries, very nearly melodic in its driven acrobatics. In all, Two Gallants' indelible storytelling marks one the year's most unapologetically traditional--and ultimately unforgettable--albums. --Jason Kirk

  • Members

    adam haworth stephens tyson h d vogel

  • Influences

    warren G, Ronald Reagan, & The Dead Sea Scrolls

  • Sounds Like

    crack music

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The Throes, What the Toll Tells, The Scenery of Farewell EP, and Two Gallants albums are all available in the Web Store as well as other items like t-shirts etc. You can also find them in your local record store, iTunes, Amazon emusic, and most other digital retailers.

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