Time, Through Windows
Posted by Erik | Filed under music, sound, spoken-word, video, visual, word
Time, Through Windows explores the perception of time, using the passage from spring to winter as a metaphor for the artist’s father’s cycle of life—from child to elder. Music and spoken dialog work in combination with video to create a six-piece narrative that invites the audience into an intimate durational experience. This work, presented as a circular grouping of six audio/video pairs, acts as a vehicle for the audience to contemplate that which might normally go overlooked.
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Tags: audio, cycle, durational, father, lens, narrative, perspective, rythym, spoken-word, video, visual
A Fact of Modern Life
Posted by Erik | Filed under design, music, sound, spoken-word
The piece may seem at first to be the antithesis of the majority of the work I do, with simplicity replaced with a cacophony of spoken text. However, it is about the rhythm found in the repetition and the contextual shifting that can occur. The Chicago poetry slam is an influence in this area of my work.
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Tags: audio, repetition, rythym, simplicity, spoken-word
Ropes & Kisses
Posted by Erik | Filed under music
Its a clean sound—the sound of outer space—the sound of absolute silence inside your head—both painful and comfortably familiar. This is injected with doses of a more rollicking bawdiness in some of the piano parts, kind of a late night drunken intelligence evocative of yet another Young fossil, Tonight’s the Night (’75).
CMJ
Sample Track:
01 Ropes & Kisses
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Tags: audio, chicago, every good boy, guitar, indie, minty fresh, vox
Get Yer La La’s Out!
Posted by Erik | Filed under music
Credits: Brian Deck: drums; Randy Henry: bass, vocals; Erik Deerly: vocals, guitars, music and lyrics. Produced by Brian Deck and Erik Deerly. Minty Fresh, 1993
Whoa. This is junked out and startlingly unusual. Lazy, distorted chords are hacked out over a laconic rhythm section, while vocalist Erik Deerly swaggers with sincerity. Kind of frightening how well this is done.
The Splatter Effect
Sample Tracks:
09 Wait ’til Your Father Gets Home
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10 City Life
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Tags: audio, chicago, every good boy, guitar, indie, minty fresh, vox
Wait / City Life
Posted by Erik | Filed under music
Credits: Brian Deck: drums; Randy Henry: bass, vocals; Erik Deerly: vocals, guitars, music and lyrics. Produced by Brian Deck and Erik Deerly. Minty Fresh, 1993
Every Good Boy has completed an infectiously retro single, “Wait ’till Your Father Gets Home” on the Minty Fresh label. The twangy Jagger-Richards vocal interplay between guitarist-songwriter Erik Deerly and bassist Randy Henry gives the new material a slinky swagger. EGB drummer Brian Deck also plays with local band Red Red Meat, which recently signed to Seattle’s Sub Pop label, so it’ a good bet that duty will eventually call him away.
Chicago Tribune
Sample Tracks:
01 Wait ’til Your Father Gets Home
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02 City Life
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Tags: audio, chicago, every good boy, guitar, indie, minty fresh, red red meat, vox
Emigre Music No. 1
Posted by Erik | Filed under music
Help! Help! The Velvet Underground and Procol Harum were carrying a case of painkillers to a friend’s house when the Residents came barreling through an alley, bodies and drugs flying through the air. The painkillers were promptly consumed by every musician and they soon lost their identities. Fed by bad ’50s sitcoms and late-night cult movies, these dedicated, bleary-eyed musicians developed in their soporific states. A nearby studio was then invaded and the result was Every Good Boy and their comments on SOCIAL GRACES.
Option
Sample Tracks:
03 Judy Climbarrow
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04 Social Graces
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Tags: audio, chicago, emigre, every good boy, guitar, indie, red red meat, vox
Baling Wire & Bubble Gum
Posted by Erik | Filed under music
Credits: Brian Deck: drums; Doug McCombs: bass; Glenn Girard: guitar; Erik Deerly: vocals, saxophone, guitar, music and lyrics. Barry Deck: cover design. Produced by Brian Deck and Erik Deerly. Emigre, 1992
Every Good Boy are anomalous to every decade in recent memory, but the band’s frighteningly well-developed sense of style and panache with arrangements have a fearless ambition, reconciling the late-70s schism between punk/indie raw emotion and grander, more “commercial” productions.
CMJ
Where many a Manchester band has failed, Every Good Boy has derived a perfect archival sense of what the 70s psychedelic sound was all about. Baling Wire & Bubblegum speaks to this 70s dementia without being the least bit nostalgic.
Alternative Press
Sample Tracks:
01 I’ll Find You
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02 Judy Climbarrow
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04 For The Meadowlark
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07 Wild
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08 Three Days in a Spanish Restroom
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Tags: audio, chicago, emigre, every good boy, guitar, indie, saxophone, vox
Social Graces
Posted by Erik | Filed under design, music
Credits: Brian Deck: drums; Randy Henry: bass, vocals; Erik Deerly: vocals, saxophone, guitars, music and lyrics. Barry Deck, Erik Deerly: design and photography. Produced by Brian Deck with Erik Deerly. Emigre, 1990.
Unlike too many musicians with a point to make, Every Good Boy puts as much, maybe more, faith in their music as in their lyrics, and that makes a big difference. You have to admire a band nobody’s heard of that writes a no-sell-out song; you end up liking them when you discover that you’re singing along.
Option
Every Good Boy takes pop music, slows it down to the pace of the Twin Peaks soundtrack, and ads enough twists to each song to give this CD an almost eerie feeling, almost as if Rod Serling had engineered this CD.
Alternative Press
Sample Tracks:
01 History
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03 Social Graces
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07 ‘Cause I Hate You
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09 What Can I Do?
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10 Through The Woods
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Tags: audio, chicago, emigre, every good boy, guitar, indie, saxophone, vox