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:
02 Fix
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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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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:
02 City Life
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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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08 Three Days in a Spanish Restroom
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Tags: audio, chicago, emigre, every good boy, guitar, indie, saxophone, vox
