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GRAVITY ENGINE'S SONG "THIS HABIT" WON THE INDIE /ALTERNATIVE CHANNEL ON OURSTAGE.COM!
Thanks to all of your votes and support, "This Habit" has taken the number 1 slot in Indie/Alternative in the November Ourstage.com competition! I owe it all to you! I have won a $100 gift card and a t-shirt! Woohoo! I know many of you spent a great deal of time on the site voting. I want you to know it is much appreciated! I can't say THANK YOU enough. So. one more time. Thank you!!
I have uploaded "Dracula" for the next few months' competitions. If you feel the urge to get voting again, here's the link to Our Stage! www.ourstage.com Otherwise, I'll let you know if and when I need your votes for the Finals!
Thanks again!
Brad
Gravity Engine's self-produced debut E.P. is available NOW. It is called Hydrazine Morning and contains seven tracks, some of which are available for listening on this site. Get your copy from the links above.
Current Reviews of "hydrazine morning":
* * * * * (5 stars)
Gravity Engine brings the intimacy and soft strokes of folk to the power and emotional invitation of rock, supported by the thick, lush foundation of electronics, although used sparingly. Comparing itself to the likes of Grant Lee Phillips and Jeff Buckley, the collective quality amounts to so much more than these references, dancing the line between the jangly and the sonic, the warm and the edgy, the lush and the angular. While most elements in these songs are well-blended and integrated, there is a slightly textured feeling, a slightly off-set mixing of ingredients making for highlighted shape, shadows and differentiation. Whether you hear all those subtleties or not, this is simply great sonic, folk-informed rock.
CD Baby
Grade: A
So, the question I have is.Why isnt Gravity Engine on mainstream radio or TV? This CD is a very impressive piece of work that captures your imagination and soul from the first song A Million Places until the last song Boats in the Bath. Singer Brad Wilcox has a genuine voice that both captivates and haunts your audible senses, while the music allows you to flow along with the movements that are implanted into your sonic memory. Other top-notch songs include Poor Little Starstruck, My Projection TV, and Dracula. You can hear a strong influence from bands and artists like Radiohead, Neil Young, The Wallflowers and The Abandoned Pools without ripping them off or imitating them. Check out this CD if you like any of the people I have just mentioned or ones that are similar.
J Sohn, The Audio Nut
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Infused with frustrated passion, Gravity Engine's debut release, Hydrazine Morning, is a meditative and introspective scrapbook that flows like a part of your subconscious. Its delicate melodies belie the emotionally-charged social commentary that drives the lyrics and each listening brings with it new revelations. Intentionally anti-pop, Brad Wilcox often dispenses with rhyming lyrics and still draws the listener effortlessly into a pleasant commiseration with his melancholia.
At its core, Hydrazine Morning is a scathing indictment of LA and the toll it has taken on Wilcox and the countless other seekers who have been pulled into its vortex. The city, like the carcinogenic rocket fuel the album takes its name from, has the awesome power to launch an individual to stardom, but an even greater potential to destroy. You feel the underlying depression but are forced to acknowledge Wilcox's determination and refusal to let it subdue him. He vows escape from the "Lethean faces" in the self-reflective This Habit and describes the hungry destruction of a star-crossed fame-seeker in Poor Little Starstruck.
The album's mesmerizing feel peaks with the hypnotic My Projection TV, a darkly pointed look at the material forces that drive our society and swallow up the individual - a recurring theme that resurfaces again in the ethereal simplicity of Boats in the Bath, in which we are assured that "still waters are pure, free from the poisons of art."
Sometimes the lyrics get lost in the measured timbre of the vocals, but don't give up on this one after one listen & it deserves a second, third and more, and each time it sinks in just a little bit deeper. Get yourself a Gravity Engine and let it bring you back to earth.
-Stan Emery, la.yourlocalscene.com
Also - check out heavy set prince. Brad sings and wrote lyrics on the track "Where are my Allies" (part b).
Also - "World Trembles" was recorded as Brad Wilcox for a 9/11 charity event organized by the Canvas Cafe in San Francisco. You can buy "The Canvas Remembers September 11" CD at CDBaby here. 100% of the purchase price goes to charities.
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