A Gorilla EP
Sweaters and Pearls
2011
Rating: 6.5 packets of horseradish out of 10
This Fat History Month release is both an EP and a seven inch, four songs packed on a slab of translucent yellow vinyl. And it's set to play at 33 1/3, which always screws with you the first time you listen cause you set it to 45 like most seven inches and you get a helium-voiced mouse singing back at you.
As for the music, I'm going to throw it into the "folky art rock" bucket, as that is the closest fit. I hear some Joan of Arc and some early Modest Mouse...it feels like something I would have been enamored with somewhere between 1995 and 1997, when a lot of bands seemed to be heading down this musical path. I still dig it though; especially the first song on the flip side of the record, "Heart Takes a Beating" - it's the most upbeat of the bunch, actually reminding me a bit of one of the Triangle's local treasures Lonnie Walker...ramshackle and adventurous but built on a pop base. The band apparently also has a full-length record out, and this is interesting enough to make me want to hear more.
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