Artist: Grids
Album: White Walls 12"
Release: 2010
Label: Inkblot
Tracklist:
1. Locals Only
2. Bonnie
3. Home By Ten
4. Allergies
5. Erotic Love
6. Gone Soft
Records like this get me so pumped. I first heard Grids maybe a year ago when Colman reviewed their first 7" on Lunchbox and was not into it at all. Their brand of Jesus Lizard-worship was less impressive to me than even Young Widows and that set of songs was quickly forgotten by me.
Gently take my hand and time warp with me one year into the future: I'm told that Pollution (my favorite live band) is playing a show and, as a devoted follower of their live art, I blindly attend without even knowing who else is playing. I get to the popular-yet-shitty South Side Williamsburg, Brooklyn venue the show is at to find that Grids from North Carolina is playing right after Pollution. Pollution opens and plays an incredible set, as always, and I am ready to head home. Unfortunately, there aren't that many people at the show, so I feel pressured into staying so as not to be a jerk. Grids begins playing and I'm totally caught off-guard. I think, this band no longer sounds like generic Jesus Lizard worship, but instead is playing something far more intense and interesting. After their set, I make awkward small talk (the only kind I know) with the band, and manage to get myself a copy of their new 12", White Walls.
Enough of my uninteresting narrative, though, and more about this record. As I previously stated, the band as abandoned their old sound and has been rearmed with a new lineup and a new style much in the vein of 90's noise rock like Cherubs and Hammerhead, which in a time when noise rock takes itself way too seriously (i.e. abandons its punk roots in favor of an "edgy" art school angle,) is quite refreshing! Homeboy in the band who is responsible for this deserves a great, big hug. These six songs stomp, crush, swing, and pry their way through my skull and this 12" has been on constant rotation since I got it. Everything is heavier, more dynamic, and far better written.
Really, it's astonishing how the band has become so exponentially better and this is why I'm so excited about this record and any other with a similar backstory. If you heard the band awhile ago and, like me, thought the 7" wasn't your thing, then please give this record a chance. The band won't disappoint you this time [Note: This is not a guarantee.]
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-Adam
Album: White Walls 12"
Release: 2010
Label: Inkblot
Tracklist:
1. Locals Only
2. Bonnie
3. Home By Ten
4. Allergies
5. Erotic Love
6. Gone Soft
Records like this get me so pumped. I first heard Grids maybe a year ago when Colman reviewed their first 7" on Lunchbox and was not into it at all. Their brand of Jesus Lizard-worship was less impressive to me than even Young Widows and that set of songs was quickly forgotten by me.
Gently take my hand and time warp with me one year into the future: I'm told that Pollution (my favorite live band) is playing a show and, as a devoted follower of their live art, I blindly attend without even knowing who else is playing. I get to the popular-yet-shitty South Side Williamsburg, Brooklyn venue the show is at to find that Grids from North Carolina is playing right after Pollution. Pollution opens and plays an incredible set, as always, and I am ready to head home. Unfortunately, there aren't that many people at the show, so I feel pressured into staying so as not to be a jerk. Grids begins playing and I'm totally caught off-guard. I think, this band no longer sounds like generic Jesus Lizard worship, but instead is playing something far more intense and interesting. After their set, I make awkward small talk (the only kind I know) with the band, and manage to get myself a copy of their new 12", White Walls.
Enough of my uninteresting narrative, though, and more about this record. As I previously stated, the band as abandoned their old sound and has been rearmed with a new lineup and a new style much in the vein of 90's noise rock like Cherubs and Hammerhead, which in a time when noise rock takes itself way too seriously (i.e. abandons its punk roots in favor of an "edgy" art school angle,) is quite refreshing! Homeboy in the band who is responsible for this deserves a great, big hug. These six songs stomp, crush, swing, and pry their way through my skull and this 12" has been on constant rotation since I got it. Everything is heavier, more dynamic, and far better written.
Really, it's astonishing how the band has become so exponentially better and this is why I'm so excited about this record and any other with a similar backstory. If you heard the band awhile ago and, like me, thought the 7" wasn't your thing, then please give this record a chance. The band won't disappoint you this time [Note: This is not a guarantee.]
Download Here
Buy Here
-Adam
5 comments:
Adam,
THANK YOU for the kind words. This is Gus the bas player of Grids.
And thank you for helping make Grids awesome!
-Adam
and the new grids recording (by kyle spence of harvey milk fame) is soooo fucking great!
yeah, we have that recording done we did with Kyle. now we need to find someone into hearing it/putting it out! AND, yes i feel it's the strongest stuff we have done to date!
Gus
thanks for introducing me to yet another great band
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