| Member Since | 1/20/2006 | | Band Website | www.vertigosmyth.com | | Band Members | Vertigo Smyth-vocals, guitars, ukes and banjo.
Brian O' Grady-double bass, fender jazz bass, moral and logistical support | | Influences | Mahler, The Muppet Show, Tom Waits, This Mortal Coil, Scott Joplin, Elliott Smith, crackly vinyl stuff, Randy Newman, Beck, Cat Power, power chords, Lo Fi stuff, Hi fi stuff, some alt country, some alt shift caps lock country, Rufus Wainwright, good ole laughing Len, Jeff Buckley giving it socks with just a Telecaster, Ogden Nash,Frank O'Hara, James Thurber, Saki, White Stripes, silly punk stuff,old things,broken things antique things, the smell of rosewood guitars, Thomas Hardy (not many people know he had a band. He invented Hardy-Core which matched straight edge punk riffing to pastoral poetry.....) Nina, Billie, Scott Walker, Lee Hazelwood, Nick Cave, Mazzy Star, scratchy guitars and depraved blues. The type of music made for attic rooms. And The Velvet Underground. And Nico. And reverb. There isn't half enough reverb around. Did I forget Big Star?Magnetic Fields?6ths?And Harry Nilsson?The Royal Tannenbaums, Powell and Pressberger, that Whistler painting "Nocuturne in Black and Gold", "Notes on Love" by Petra Jean Phillipson, "Late Night Final" by Richard Hawley (it's a great album to put on when you get home from a long night) Nouvelle Vague ( both albums and the movement)Luis Buneul (you have to read his autobiography), John Fahey, Adrian Utleys sweet and sour guitar solos for Portishead, Django Rheinhardt, John Barry, Arvo Part,Yann Tierson,Bach,magpies,the beach at Seafield, Nick Drake, the sound that John Martyn gets from his guitar for "Small Hours", the forgotten genius of Harry Clarke, the Tindersticks soundtrack for Nenette et Boni....ah sure just drop round and we'll put a record on. | | Sounds Like |
I’m not a big fan of the whole singer song writer thing, whinging in earnest tones bout being left broken hearted by Suzie Rottencrotch. I just don’t believe ‘em. Mr. Smyth on the other hand has two things most of the pretenders lack, vocal prowess and proper lyrics-Playrewind.com
Straight outta Ennis, comes Vertigo Smyth’s debut EP. His favourite albums list include Beck’s Sea Change, Jeff Buckley’s Grace and Neil Young’s Harvest. Despite his own material sharing an acoustic commonality with these records, the end result is a lot more playful and carefree and the 4 tracks here fly by. Opener ‘Comfort Me’ is a lovely ukulele-led number with handclaps and delightfully subtle backing vocals. ‘Dirty Blue’ admonishes hipster jeans in a laidback fashion complete with brass-mimicking mouth solo. A promising debut release-State.ie
A man with birds on his album can't be bad-Pa's Ma. | | Record Label | Unknown Indie | | Type of Label | Indie |
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