CD Review Oregon band strikes out of the park with Debut

CD Review Oregon band strikes out of the park with Debut > From the city that was the birth of these characters like Nu Shooz, Everclear and Dandy Warhols, Portland, Oregon, is again the waves with his new magazine element57 incredible DIY ethics and their fondness for defects management for national awards. The band's impressive way of doing business and in the national spotlight means that will no doubt see something far beyond the borders of Oregon. Once called 4th Air Jaiant, element57 himself has relaunched with a new name and a new sound that is powerful, elegant, gigantic and yet completely connected. Gone are the slightly jam band vibes of 4 Jaiant plane. With the new album "Radiate" element57 reinvented herself into a poppy yet intelligent, artistic way, a sound that is very characteristic, including hard to describe. At the heart of the new sound is a huge wall of fuzzy guitar, as some rumbling colossus, which consists of a guitar amplifier. E 'un po' surreal and even a little 'strange, but still massive and completely setting the band apart from most everything out there. Image hard edges of Bush, Stone Temple Pilots and Audioslave, with the linear, single-mind, fuzzy lines of morphine (the band without being obscure, psychotropic blues elements, however). Bits of rock or straight funk Since this fuzzy, vague treatment, while the songwriting is poppy yet sophisticated, in a style not dissimilar to Peter Gabriel's "So" or Police "Synchronicity" era. Singer Chris Galyon sometimes sounds like Gabriel or Bush Gavin Rossdale, emotionally all the time and mysterious blend in (almost too well) with the wall of fuzzy guitar. The album begins with "has woken up too late", with one, grinding kind of disjointed funk, Galyon as the melodies float above the roar of its sound. "All the other pieces" is a pleading, plaintive quality in a more straightforward rock vein, where Gabriel's "So" aesthetic really light. "You talk so loud," is a slow grind, it's easy to dream that big guitar sound of lumbering in a pleasant way. "Swept Away" Poppy is a quality, somewhat 'like Semisonic with much bigger balls. The "too close, the blur is a little 'softer and a little' rest for the gloomy tone, and the album closes with the memorable" Freedom, "which gives a little 'of Bush. "Radiate" is a nifty debut of a new band built from an old, shows a unique and innovative sound. With only six songs, there will be no more than a little 'interesting to see if element57 continues. Band members are: Galyon (guitar, vocals), Jason Wilbur (wind synthesizer, saxophone), Andy Kallenberger (bass), Jim Sanders (keys) and Joe Gardner (drums). More information about