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�lan Vital * (CD)

By: Pretty Girls Make Graves (Artist)

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Pretty Girls Make Graves Artist Snapshot:

Seattle's Pretty Girls Make Graves named themselves after a Smiths song, but any similarities between the two bands ends there. Formed in 2001, and signed to influential labels Lookout Records and Matador, the group embodied the insouciant, knowing, and sophisticated state of post-riot-grrl punk in the oughts. Combing the bounce, melody, and occasional electronic elements of new wave with the restless angularity of post-punk, the band worked with a varied palette and created atmospheric songs with hooks and dramatic build-ups, featuring Andrea Zollo's pretty but feisty vocals. After three critically acclaimed albums, the band broke up in 2007.

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DISC 1 for �lan Vital * (CD) Album By Pretty Girls Make Graves (Arti...
1   Nocturnal House, The
2   Pyrite Pedestal
3   Number, The
4   Parade
5   Domino
6   Interlude
7   Magic Hour, The
8   Selling The Wind
9   Pearls On A Plate
10   Pictures Of A Night Scene
11   Wildcat
12   Bullet Charm
 

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Uncut (p.119) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "As Andrea Zollo's commanding voice presides with sweet menace, the album travels from the carnival-esque 'Selling The Wind' to the militant march of 'Parade', with countless twists and turns between jagged dissonance."
Kerrang (Magazine) (p.47) - "[With] punchy new wave beats and guitars that are both fuzzy and funky..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Culminating in the gorgeous 'Bullet Charm', where power ballad dynamics meet free jazz brass, this is repeat play head music that still manages to hotwire the heat."

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Pretty Girls Make Graves: J. Clark (vocals, guitars, saxophone, trumpet, keyboards, drums, programming); Leona Marrs (vocals, accordion, melodica, piano, keyboards); Nick DeWitt (vocals, trumpet, piano, drums, sampler); Derek Fudesco (vocals, bass guitar); Andrea Zollo (vocals).

The Seattle post-punk band Pretty Girls Make Graves's sound is dreamy, vibrant, and imaginative. On their second album, ELAN VITAL, alternately ringing and clipped guitar and angular percussion frames singer Andrea Zollo's smart, feisty vocals, while an imaginative production steers the band's sound firmly away from empty alternative rock gestures. The album's opener, the unsettling "The Nocturnal House," hints at a fierce artistic intelligence at work--by the closing "Bullet Charm," the evidence is overwhelming.

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