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Grasshopper and The Golden Crickets

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General Info

  • Genre: Afro-beat / Death Metal / Hawaiian

    Location Catskills, New York, US

    Profile Views: 16316

    Last Login: 4/1/2011

    Member Since 5/24/2007

    Record Label Beggars Banquet

  • Bio

    .............. .. GRASSHOPPER and The Golden Crickets --- "THE ORBIT OF ETERNAL GRACE" .. (You can find another interesting Mercury Rev fan page ..here.., or just click on the link in the friends section. Oldies, b-sides and rare stuff!) .... .. .... THE ORBIT OF ETERNAL GRACE (beggars Banquet, 1998) .. Not long into this mesmerizing space/ drug/ ambient-pop album, Grasshopper, the guitarist and creative force behind Mercury Rev, proves he has few equals on this terrestrial plane. Shortly after the release of Mercury Rev's first effort, Yerself Is Steam, influential spacecase David Baker left the band. Grasshopper more- than- adequately made up for Baker's absence, becoming the group's Brian Wilson, of sorts. True, The Orbit of Eternal Grace is only a slight extension of the last Mercury Rev album, but then again, See You On the Other Side was, for some, an extension of everything alternative rock has been flirting with for the last 10 years. In a sense, Grasshopper is one of the few artists around who is rarely derivative of anyone or anything, other than maybe himself. .... Eternal Grace caresses your auditory nerves like the ideal accompaniment to a technicolored lysergic dream unfolding before your eyes. The songs are near- perfect realizations of a pop song's infinite possibilites. From the crackling opener, "Silver Balloons," the album's atmosphere progressively thickens with the light cooing of flutes, errant sampling, whimsical flights of space- oriented wordplay, and flecks of sublunary digital effects. Grasshopper's diffident, effeminate vocals float weightlessly around the flowing instrumentation, complimenting it perfectly. "The Ballad of the One-Eyed Anglefish" is a warm 6am sunrise to begin a clear winter's day. The delectable, quivering guitar hook throughout "Univac Bug Track" is typical of Grasshopper's unimpeachable charm. It's obvious that the playing of elder spaceman, Major Tom Verlaine, certainly presaged this sort of lyrical, less- is- more economy. .... I suppose there will be inevitable comparisons with My Bloody Valentine. Yet this stuff is more melodic, and frankly, much more listenable. Grasshopper and Co. manage to somehow create the perfect illusion. The album suggests that rock can indeed break out of its current creative doldrums and cease to rely on obvious nostalgic references. The subtle, unexpected space-age novelties on Orbit of Eternal Grace prove that with a little oddball creativity, indie rock's frontiers are never final. .... .. .... (Pitchfork review)

  • Members

    .. .. .. .. .. .. GRASSHOPPER'S "WILD RIDE" .. ..

  • Influences

    "Heavenly intrigue and smpte for the devil", of course! And metal pipes, one eyed angelfishes, flutes, love in space, mellotrons, humming top organs, Univac bugs, micromoogs, hockey rink organs, scotch 201...

  • Sounds Like

    The Orbit of Eternal Grace is outer space music for your inner spaces, full of alien sounds yet strangely familiar, like the music you heard when you were too young to know what music was. .... Opener "Silver Balloons" mourns a love lost with proto-techno bleeps and squealing, phoned-in guitar. Yet there's a sadness in the melody, a mood developed more completely on "The Ballad of the One-Eyed Anglefish," a pretty, folksy drone that proves you don't have to like Jethro Tull to enjoy a nice flute every once and a while. .... "Nickel in a Lemon" is another soothing, rainy-day lament, the kind of song that makes calling in sick and drinking hot tea all afternoon sound like the only plausible option. Yet to get there you have to go through "O-Ring (Baby Talk)," a punky, rattling missive built on a sinister mood and an alien groove. And not long after the exquisite "September's Fool" Grasshopper drops you into "Univac Bug Track," a techno number seemingly made without the aid of any technology developed since 1984. .... But these moments of disorientation are somehow just as important -- and rewarding. They show the Mercury Revsters, in whatever guise, are still working on the fringe of reason and well beyond the dictates of fashion, eager to redefine what they're allowed to do. Among rock bands, perhaps only the Super Furry Animals and Primal Scream are so dedicated to the cause. Climb aboard.

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  • Mozzy mozzy

    I wish you a wish all my wishes for the new year 2010 you and your whole family

    2 years ago
  • *GLENN*

    Photobucket

    2 years ago
  • A Gentle Tuesday

    simply great!!!

    2 years ago
  • Reticents

    Let's have another one!

    2 years ago
  • Karma Sherab Dorje

    Greetings from Greece!
     

    2 years ago
  • wonderland

    vk red will be answring questions about her lovely photographs over on before the war, revs forum.

    2 years ago
  • The Dead Telegraph

    Thanks for adding us, GATGC. You're sounding good these days.

    Come hear:
    Overtaken
    Coelacanth
    Storms On The Face of The Sun




    thedeadtelegraph

    2 years ago
  • Faker Junior

    thanks from manchester uk

    3 years ago
  • Heaven And

    thank you for the frienship
    best wishes from berlin vienna sydney melbourne
    HEAVEN AND



    'sweeter as the years roll by'
    OUT ON STAUBGOLD

    3 years ago
  • Reticents

    Please return to our solar system in your Saturn strides and blast us again.
    xxxxxx

    3 years ago
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