Honest, raw, emotionally-urgent indie/alt-rock songs delivered in an 'organic' guitar-driven sound.

8 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Modern Rock, ROCK: Classic Rock



Details:
The Grails are an independent, alt-rock band hailing from the shores of Vancouver, Canada. Formed and fronted by singer-songwriter Scotland Hurst since March, 2003 - the band has since been rapidly establishing a local reputation for delivering tight, dynamic & accessible songs through incendiary, off-the-cuff live performances at venues such as The Media Club, The Roxy Cabaret, The Pic, Purple Onion & The Showroom. Having cultivated a general disregard for the seemingly hyper-cyclic & vapid whims of flash-in-the-pan trends in the music industry, this band is bent on treading their own path while evolving within their own particular sound. Songs before haircuts, remember?

Stylistically, The Grails are only concerned with creating memorable melody, harmony and emotionally-charged movement within an organic guitar-driven sound - generally inspired by the catalogue of truly great bands from yesteryear as well as various respected contemporaries. The sound has been described as "an urgent and visceral, focused and deliberate mixture of both the raw & the pop...gnashing, fuzzed & rough-hewn enough for the indie-rock listener, and yet hook-laden and polished enough to respect the dynamics & pedigree of great pop music structure". The debut EP containing 7-songs has been self-released, received continued on-air support from the "Indie Night In Canada" segment of Vancouver's CFOX radio (99.3FM) and has garnered press in The Georgia Straight Weekly.