After
releasing the solo album "Winter Wonderland" in May to uniformly
positive reviews, Ari Vais capped off 2002 by venturing into the studio
with his new NYC-based rock band, the Pelicans, to bash out a 6-song EP
of all new material, six songs either written in or inspired by London,
where Vais lived for eighteen months.
“London Crawling” displays a new, dramatically effective lower-register style of singing for Vais and his new bandmates in the Pelicans know how to create sparkling, sophisticated arrangements for catchy pop choruses or bash out a maelstrom coda, depending on what the track dynamic calls for.
More good news is that Vais hasn’t lost his touch for spinning hook-filled pop songs and every tune here is a winner. Guided By Voices / Sebadoh / Strokes fans, you can’t go wrong with this. Humbert fans, this record is too good to be true.
Track
Listing
One
Year From Here - FREE
MP3
Like A Flood - FREE MP3
Penny’s On The Dole
Dead
Trip To Acton
Ready For The Crawl
Credits
Ari
Vais: vocals, guitars
Blain Kennedy: guitars
Joe Rosenthal: bass, Bontempi
Art Tavee: drums, percussion
Ken Mauiri: keyboards, bells, backing vocals
Tracks produced/enginered/mixed/mastered by Frank Padellaro at Brown Bag Recording in Greenfield, MA
All songs written by Ari Vais