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Pennsylvania's heavy jammers, Grass, retreated to the Pocono Mountains after playing nonstop shows for 3 years to record their debut album, "Get In The Van” and its finally here!
The power trio features fuzzy riffs and grooves bringing back the days of acid rock with Andy rippin' leads and singin' the blues, Salty layin' down spaced-out, fuzzedelic basslines, and drummer, Chet, whose musical skill has been making the band tighter than ever; taking them to new heights and soaring jams since joining over a year ago.
Along the way, their long lost saxman, Sam, returned and is featured on half the album making the band a bluesy, funky, psychedelic quartet. Recorded almost 100% live at Pandaman Studios, "Get In The Van" shows Grass as close as you can get to hearing them in their natural element of playing live without actually being there in person. So sit back, relax, and take a little trip with Grass on “Get In The Van.”
Get In The Van is an album released on August 21, by American psychedelic/ acid rock band Grass. Forty minutes and fifteen seconds long, the record has ten tracks: Lay It On Me Brotha', Shaggy Dog, Get In The Van, Right On, Leadfoot, Where Are You Sam?, Day To Day, Grasstronaut, Big Bad Sam and Back From Space. With cool, fast and direct acid rock harmonies, and somewhat diligent, very elegant grooves, Get In The Van is an unmistakably sensitive and clean record, despite its straightforward simplicity, which comes in all honesty as part of its charm.
With eloquent, laudatory, crispy and colorful guitar lines, framed by surreptitiously vivacious melodies, the vocals – that most of the time resembles more of a spoken word work than actually singing – are clean and sober, despite being sporadic, and definitely appear to be gracefully engraved by a sensational conjuncture of qualities, that has on its extraordinary psychedelic appeal a coherent set of merits, upon which a delusional level of originality certainly emerges as the first.
To a certain degree, you definitely feel yourself to be in a sixties acid party. The general layout of the harmonies is simple, but whimsically delineated, and the creative mordacity of the music is a very torrential aspect of the work. The melodies do change constantly, but the group maintains a solid and cohesive style, that definitely highlight them as an exponentially genuine and groundbreaking exemplar of the genre.
Although they can be described as a very simplistic band – at least, in technical measurements –, Grass compensates their lack of structural virtuosity with a voracious, audacious, humorous, amazingly fun and superbly authentic level of creativity, that knows no boundaries, which is definitely a more relevant element.
A little reminiscent of Dead Kennedys – not so much on the musical layer, but in the anatomy of its intrinsic artistic attitude – Grass certainly is a modern exemplar of a long lost line of bands, whose irreverent and sardonic levels of gracious exhilaration leaves them at the gates of an inherited youth insurrection movement, that captures their soul with a notorious flavor of The Stooges and The Strokes, which is also preeminent in the group. Definitely, they can’t deny their musical origins, although I must emphasize the fact that they present an abundant degree of originality on this work, that captivates the audience with their signature qualities amazingly highlighting them as a pretty charming, vibrant, irreplaceable and unique band.
Even if you are not a big fan of acid rock, you will definitely love Get In The Van. This album is thoroughly captivating, from the beginning until the very end. The group has a consistent and solid musicality, that embraces not only the true spirit of the genre, but vehemently justifies the quintessential verve of its very existence. Undoubtedly, this is a fundamental record, that amplifies on the axis of its greatly monumental possibilities the true potential for the development of the genre, in the future.
01. Lay It On Me Brotha' 04:10
02. Shaggy Dog 05:28
03. Get In The Van 03:33
04. Right On 02:54
05. Leadfoot 02:54
06. Where Are You Sam? 05:47
07. Day To Day 01:43
08. Grasstronaut 02:50
09. Big Bad Sam 06:00
10. Back From Space 04:51
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