Here Is

Gosling - Here Is

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Artist: Gosling
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-08-22
Music Label: V2 North America
Soundtracks:

Intro
Mr. Skeleton Wings
Worm Waltz
Half Awake
The Burnout
Come Into My Room
Stealing Stars
Waiting For The Sun
Glass Is Empty
Afraid Of Nineveh
Afraid Of Nineveh
One Hand Two Hand
Here Is...
Sinking Ship

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Music Review: You need love, yes you do
Rating: 5 Stars

Lots of bands hit the nasty collapse -- in the case of Loudermilk, it happened right after their solid debut.

But, God bless 'em, they didn't give up. Instead they renamed themselves Gosling and set about a new, more expansive style of hard-rock. It displayed fully in "Here Is" -- kinetic, flexible hard-rock decorated with some instrumental flourishes and Corganesque vocals.

It opens with a dark intro of echoing bass and ringing guitars, just sort of booming around experimentally. That's the lead-in to "Mr. Skeleton Wings," a deliciously eerie rocker of blazing guitar, solid drumming and an undercurrent of strong piano. "I've got it all/And I've never been more satisfied," Davey Ingersoll drawls. "If you want the sun I'm gonna eat it like a peach/When money's in the bank it seems like nothings out of reach..."

It's followed by the sputtery, swirling rocker "Worm Waltz" ("Slither and crawl/Through your worm castle halls"), and a string of skilfully crafted songs: meandering vintage hard-rock, sinuously twisting stretches of pure bassline, quirky thumpy lo-fi punk, mellow guitarpop and ballads, and a little rock ditty "Waiting for the Sun," which slowly builds up to a blazing climax.

It finishes off with the expansive, exquisitely bittersweet "Sinking Ship," which kicks off with some church organ, but soon evolves into an epic sea of roiling guitars and mournful laments ("Darling, where's the will to persist?/Tell me that somewhere it exists...").

A lot of bands don't get the label coverage they deserve, but in the case of Gosling, it's almost criminal.

They clearly know what many bands don't -- great rock is more than stringing together a few instruments and playing the same riff repeatedly until you have a radio hit. It even sounds like they're mocking some of those emptier songs, when Ingersoll snarls, "Fill your mouth with words of the time/And get your concepts to rhyme."

For one thing, they know how to mingle their instrumentation. Their drums are smashing, their basslines are blunt and roaring, and the electric guitars can do either tight, lean riffs or ringing, fuzzy expanses. And their songs are sprinkled pretty evenly with other instruments as well -- urgent strings, what sounds like a pipe organ, piano undercurrents, and some blippy keyboard.

It's kind of an easy comparison, but there seem to be moments where Ingersoll is channelling Billy Corgan -- his voice is high and a little nasal, and he can snarl and drawl with the best of them. But in songs like "Afraid of Ninevah" he sounds softer and more boyish.

But there's definite songwriting ability in Gosling, and it's grown even since their last EP. Ingersoll sings some songs of brilliantly elusive meaning ("Educated God's lonely man/It fills the void in his hand/He illustrates the swan"), overshadowed by some very dark attitudes ("Let's liberate the lost cause/But emptiness will grow").

"Here Is..." a vastly underrated rock album, full of brilliantly fiery music and darkly enticing lyrics. Grimily beautiful and incredibly talented -- and hopefully heralding more Gosling.

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"It's rare we see a band capable of mixing up chorus-pumping raw power, abstruse songwriting, sometimes show tune-dabbling melodies, and machismo-drenched garage rock intensity. But then, their list of influences on their website includes Queen, Nation Of Ulysses, Engine Kid, and Grand Funk Railroad, and that makes a lot of sense" - threeimaginarygirls.com.

Sometimes it just makes sense to start over. For the members of Loudermilk, it came after releasing a heavily hyped major label debut that bombed alongside the label. Slyly reinventing themselves as Gosling, the Seattle group landed yet another major label deal and a plum support gig for Velvet Revolver. Things should go better this time, what with a brash new sounds that recalls '90s power-pop greats Jellyfish and Redd Kross in their more manic moments. Vintage metal riffs and haunting minor chords flame "The Burnout," while "Afraid of Nineveh" is deeply infused with psychedelic smoke, and "Come Into My Room" is the kind of candle-lit ballad where you can almost close your eyes and imagine Elton John and Axl Rose holding hands and singing the harmonies. If it all sounds a bit bombastic, that just might be the point--this is a band with nothing to lose. --Aidin Vaziri

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