Posts Tagged ‘Ryan Graveface’

Shoegazer Sunday: The Casket Girls’ “The Chase”

Sunday, April 5th, 2015

The Casket Girls are sisters Phaedra and Elsa Greene backed by the ubiquitous Ryan Graveface. Here’s “The Chase,” the concluding song on True Love Kills The Fairy Tale.

I picked up True Love Kills The Fairy Tale. If you like this, there’s more where that came from. The problem is, there’s a distinct sameness not to the songs themselves, but to the approach to the songs. Naive and slightly lazy female harmonies from the Greene sisters (a little like the Roaches but only two=part harmony, or the female harmony bits from Polyphonic Spree), a buzzy wall-of-sound backing electronic instrumentation from Graveface, some electronic percussion, and vey little else. A few more backing tracks and more varied harmonies would seem to be in order…

Shoegazer Sunday: Dreamend’s “New Zealand”

Sunday, July 15th, 2012

The long guitar intro to this song sounds so much like that from A Beautiful Machine that I had to check and make sure it wasn’t the same guy. No, the band consists of Ryan Graveface, who’s also the guitarist for Black Moth Super Rainbow. No only did Andrew really like them at Psychfest, but he’s been communicating with Graveface (who has his own record label), and says he’s a swell guy, which is good enough for me.

“New Zealand” is long, noodly, a bit self-indulgent, and very pretty.