Smother Magazine Band Spotlight
Band Spotlight
Chiodos
Perhaps no one can explain the sheer ferocity and timid quietness it is better than when vocalist Craig Owens says “we don’t want to let the kids down” when discussing the group’s intense vocals live at shows. Well they never let a single kid down with their vicious assault on the ears and grip on the jugular...
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03.09.2007 by J-Sin
Smother Magazine Band Spotlight: The Decemberists
Enigmatic indie rockers The Decemberists don't care about what the latest trends are. They fashion their music on gritty and gnarly approaches to songwriting that focus on thematic surges in emotion and notes that tingle of varying degrees of creative juices. Perhaps most invigorating is their album "The Tain", an opus that consists of five separate pieces in one whole long song.
Most bands would shy away from that but The Decemberists led by Colin Meloy never stir and plod forth with some of the most imaginative art rock to come out in recent memory.
Current Releases:
The Tain (2004) - Read the review
Her Majesty The Decemberists (2003)
Castaways and Cutouts (2003)
Five Songs (2002)
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