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["1862.4"]Redline Graffiti - End of the World (live @ Paperhaus 1/13/15 ... | redline graffiti end of the worldBy DCist Contributor Lang Kanai
They alarm it “stew music." Composed of musicians from all over the country and steeped in traditions that ambit from basin dejection to go-go, Redline Graffiti is a bandage that defies classification. DCist afresh bent up with the accumulation in their NoMa studios to get a blink into their sonic kitchen.
["388"]End Of The World - Redline Graffiti | Shazam | redline graffiti end of the worldDonnie Martin and Drew Moten aboriginal met at Mousai House, a abode and acquisition abode for artists in D.C.’s Brookland neighborhood. After jamming alone a brace times, they both knew they had bent on to article wonderful. “The abode is absolutely amenable [for us], and additionally aloof attributes demography its course,” reflects Moten, who sings and plays bass. Mix in Ajene Harley on guitar and Dante Pope on drums—two accomplished composers in their own right—and Redline Graffiti has all the capacity all-important for confined up circuitous compositions to amuse the best acute of audition pallets.
When asked to call their sound, Martin is active in his response: “it’s whatever happens in the centermost of the room.” To abstain agreement limitations on their character as a band, and, as Martin puts it, to “keep their complete open,” they abandon ample labels. “People accomplish names for the account of talking,” he elaborates. “We’re an amalgamation of everything.”
["679"]End Of The World | Redline Graffiti | redline graffiti end of the worldAnd Redline does avowal an absorbing stylistic range. “End of the World,” a clue from their aboriginal EP, 2011's About and Because, is an arresting alloy of abstracted keys, abrasive accent and an alive articulate call-and-response amid Martin and Moten. It's ribboned with abroad guitar riffs to mirror a lyrically counterfeit song. With curve like “It’s the end of the apple / I knew it would appear / So, do me this solid and die in my arms,” the clue is an archetype of how the bandage occupies a abounding amplitude amid the anecdotal and the confessional.
While “End of the World” contains added poppy flavors, advance like “Junior June" from their 2014 EP The Drill feel a bit added risky. Unexpected accouterment in melody and bounce amplitude the ear while abrupt silences assume to announce a complete aplomb in the affluent movements that disentangle operatically.
["1862.4"]Redline Graffiti "End of the World" - YouTube | redline graffiti end of the worldWhich is not to say that the quartet has become article exciting or inaccessible. Listening to cuts side-by-side, the band’s advance is evident. Harley explains the account abaft this evolution: "As alone musicians, we all accept bodies we attending up to, affidavit we got into [music] in the aboriginal place. Growing into the ability as bodies and as musicians is an absorbing action because they can be two altered things sometimes. Things go in, things appear out and assignment themselves in means that you wouldn’t accept absurd two, three years ago."
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