"tell me something I didn't know..."
Vangelism are alt rock and rollers to the core, buds, diehards, survivors, small town heroes (from Peterborough, Ontario Canada) who pump out, caustic, distortions of life, their lives lived or imagined or both at a prolific pace. At one point, as their website illustrates, they were cranking out a new piece of work every 336 HOURS. It is an exercise, a work ethic that I admire, it is walking a sonic tightrope, it is making a pressure cooker because it will garner results. Maybe they are still stoking their own creative fires this way.
One result is "One Giant Fade". It is, in many ways, classic Vangelism. The smashed drum machine beat, feral pulsating guitars with tasty, TASTY lead licks thrown in for spice and vox that are pushed through the mid-range electronic /mechanical filters of an old harp mic (or something like that). I have always loved the vocal aesthetic here, having written about these guys a few time before. The vox sound is indicative of lips right up on hopefully a grounded microphone.
Press notes ask questions and provide some revelations:
"Is life one giant fade into death? That’s one way to look at it, but maybe the key to life is fading out the bullshit until we can actually hear ourselves think. It gets really fucking loud in our heads sometimes. Don’t you ever just wanna turn it down? 'One Giant Fade' sounds a little like Queens Of The Stoneage put through an Atari. Listen to it loud, then find a way to turn life down a little. Your head will thank you for it."
"One Giant Fade" is 3 minutes and 30 seconds of no pretense alt rock. I like to turn it up loud until the boys' swagger seeps into my brain. It will dissipate over time but at least for a while I feel like I can take on the world.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.vangelismisnotacrime.com/
2 punks and a boombox. And by punks we mean 90’s kids and by boombox we mean discman. Nomadic tune slingers planting their feet for various periods in places like Montreal, Nashville, Brooklyn, Toronto and Japan, all in search of jeans that fit just right. Plying their trade in a multitude of projects, some good, some bad, all worth it if the end result is getting here. Plowing through stages on 3 continents warming up beer drinkers for headliners as diverse as The Stranglers, DFA1979, Nashville Pussy, Electric Six and Bon F*ckin Jovi, these 2 90’s grunge rejects learned a thing or 2 about throwing down when the time comes. Just ask Toby Keith. Vangelism came out of isolations womb, fully formed from behind the steering wheel of 2 used cars parked 6ft away. Why wait for things to return to normal to get started ? Normal never waited for them.
Vangelism, Punk, Alternative Rock, Canada, Ontario, 2 punks and a boombox, 90's kids, dark art rock, distortions of life, "One Giant Fade", a single every 336 hours,
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