Imagine Rufus Wainwright singing Beatles melodies with the hard, but quirky edge of Weezer... other influences include Violent Femmes, the Shins, Beulah, Ozma, and Of Montreal.

12 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Modern Rock, POP: Beatles-pop



Details:
"Super simple perfect pop songs about love, love, love. They sound a lot like the less psychedelic members of the Elephant 6 crew. There's hardly a bad song on here, from the power-pop opener Don't Push Me Away, the slinky, loungey acoustic Fall In Love Again, and the maybe the best song on the album, Gwynneth. I think their version of Sleeping In A Beetle Bug may be better than the original.

Singer Michael Chagnon has a great vibrato and a charming Westerberg-like snarl that works wonders on The End of The Real World.

The recording quality and mix is remarkably good for a self-produced, independent release. If you dig the poppy side of Elephant Six - bands like Minders, Of Montreal, Apples In Stereo, Marbles, you'll flip for this band - myspace.com/escapevelocityva or buy it from cdbaby.com/escapevelocity for the nice price of 8 bucks US greenback dollars."

Gordon B. Isnor
Left Hip Magazine
www.lefthip.com