I keep forgetting to tell you, we got a (mostly) nice review in
The Owl Mag recently. Here are the nice parts:
"...the overwhelming thing that strikes the listener with I Spied a Spider
is not any political message, but Collisionville's readiness to be musically inventive."Recalling at times The Pixies, Replacements, and Minutemen, Stephen Pride's songwriting and understated guitar heroics keeps the sometimes labored point-making fresh enough to enjoy on its own musical merits. 'Down the Drain (By Way of the Basin)' is a wide sounding piece of mid-early R.E.M. influenced janglephemera (I made that up). 'Sleeping In a Tree' has the cinemascopic sweep of something Daniel Lanois could have produced in a home studio. But the undoubted highlight is the banjo-led 'Please Spare the Life of Your Cocaine Dealer,' a whitty [sic], tuneful piece..."
The entire review is
here.
In other news, make sure to come to the Guitar vs. Gravity show tomorrow night at the Hemlock Tavern in SF:
Full disclosure, I'm the bass player in that band.
More news/bulletins/etc to come as our April 15th show at the Stork draws closer.
-Stephen