Album Review
GR – “A Reverse Age” – [Mexican Summer]
surferrosa 1/6/2013 12-inch, A Library
GR is the moniker of Gregory Raimo, Frenchman and former guitarist for Gunslingers. Here is his one man band, in which he performs on guitar, bass, drums and vocals. The riffage is delivered, fuzzy and infectious.. guitar squeals and licks a plenty, going beyond the strum of rhythm. Drums do much more than keep the beat, locked into the liquid bass lines. Far away, sorta nasaly, telephone receiver style vocals are delightfully barely intelligible. This is some lo-fi, asymmetrical, dirty-gritty breed of psych, hearkening back to a few decades ago..some good old broken rock n roll for fans of overdrive and welll placed, tastefully executed, moderately but not overly indulgent guitar solos…Processing is minimal, this sounds mostly like its coming straight from the amp, but includes reverb and a little tiny touch of wha-wha…as far as I can tell anyway. Acoustic number at the end of A, killer drum work at the end of B. A nice balance of sweet and nasty. -Surfer Rosa
you heard it 29 times on kfjc! most recently:
- 1932 days ago, Teachers AIDS played Spectre of The Brocken
- 2057 days ago, Droll played Low-Born
- 2329 days ago, Dusty Rhodes played Low-Born
- 3114 days ago, Number 6 played Bradtenehend
- 3365 days ago, abacus finch played A Reverse Age
12345 S. El Monte Road Los Altos Hills, California 94022
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