Category: Bands/Comps/Splits
Seacoast Online names Thrift Store Ransom and Nate Laban & Sam Hill among their top local albums of 2014
Thrift Store Ransom – “Thrift Store Ransom”
Thrift Store Ransom started as an RPM project, and turned into a full-fledged “thing” that wound up being picked up by Rhode Island-based record label, “75-or-Less.” Not too shabby. My favorite part of this project is the collaboration between frontman Eric Ott and his teenaged daughter, Lindsay. She wrote several of the songs included on the effort, including “Moonshine,” one of the year’s finest penned tunes, hands down.
Nate Laban & Sam Hill – “Nate Laban & Sam Hill”
Nate Laban is simply the best punk-folker on the planet. His brand of music is somewhere in the vein of Elvis Costello hanging with the Clash – pumping out jam after jam. “Nate Laban & Sam Hill” does not venture away from that recipe at all. And why would one want to? So good. So aggressive. So feisty.
All 19 of the 2014 Releases
Gavage at Dusk
with Extinction Machine, Cannibal Ramblers, Von Donovan
Dusk
Harris Ave
Providence RI
9pm
Coma Coma New American Dream
75OL-194 Coma Coma – New American Dream CD
Digital download is available here
$7.00 S&H Included
Track Listing
1. No In Between
2. Last Night
3. Warning From The Outside
4. Lost in the Slow Decay
5. 21st Century Savior
6. Claustrophobic
7. Chicago
8. Bat Bat Bat
9. Syndrome
10. Letter to Your Former Self
New American Dream is the second full length release from Rhode Island indie rock trio Coma Coma. The album blends elements of punk, math, psychedelic, stoner rock and beyond, to create a sound that is as unique as the individual members themselves. Influences include artists such as Built to Spill, Fugazi, Neil Young, Mike Watt, Miles Davis and Deerhoof, just to name a few.
Coma Coma Cd Release Show, Pom Pom, Six Star General, and Jodie Treloar at The Parlour
Coma Coma’s cd release show for “The New American Dream”
The Parlour
North Main Street
Providence, RI
9pm
Mike Mountain at Funky Jungle
with Cult of Riggonia
Funky Jungle
Empire Street
2nd Floor
Providence, RI
9pm
The McGunks at KC’s Tap
with The VapoRubs and SixTenConnector
KC’s Tap
530 Broadway
Pawtucket, Rhode Island 02860
9pm
Thrift Store Ransom review at The Sound
File under: Folk, Americana, Pop, Rock
Sounds like: Impromptu jams from The Byrds, Electric Light Orchestra, Elvis Costello, and
Roy Orbison
Thrift Store Ransom was born out of the annual RPM Challenge. As many RPM alumni know, to write and record an entire album in the year’s shortest month is a journey best experienced with friends. The studio project that began with songwriter Eric Ott and Sean Yadisernia quickly grew to a gathering of 10, including Guy Capecelatro, producer Chris Decato and even Ott’s daughter, Lindsay, who contributed the majority, and the best, of the albums’ lyrics.
The band’s name is, in a sense, literal, as if Ott, Yadisernia, and company have raided a thrift store and plucked out gems from the past. The songs travel from decade to decade, employing the best sounds of their respective eras. The ’60s are well represented in the pop hooks on the album’s standout track, “Moonshine,” and the slow psychedelic sounds of “Cold Blue.” The ’70s “Crazy Horse”-inspired sounds of “The Mill Song #2” give way to the ’80s Costello-esque ender, “Crescent Palms.” The transitions are seamless, and combined with Ott’s resonant vocals, make for traveled-time well spent.
Ott is recording new solo material and playing with Nate Laban in Bear, Brook and The Elephant. Let’s hope he finds an occasion to bring Thrift Store Ransom together again. It would be interesting to see what they could do with more time, literally and figuratively.
Mike Mountain at AS220
with Kowalski, Sciomancy,and Camp Entropic
AS220
Empire Street
Providence
9pm
Gavage at Aurora
with Lala Lala, Herbs Chambers, and Bryan Reynolds
Aurora
Westminster Street
Providence, RI
9pm