UNDERGROUND A&R REPORT

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Autumdivers - Self Titled

Golden, shimmering psychedelia, after the album gets going a couple in. First song "turnaround” is too much a stab at alternapop for much use beyond that, though admittingly the album has a great feedback intro, but it fails to fully engage before “Amend” truly begins a lively, well written and executed set of guitar orientated alterna on the second cut. Once this band gets into the groove, they are smooth as a vette A few times you have to overlook stabs at trying things that just don’t quite work, it’ll be a few minutes and the band will be back again. Even in cruise mode Autumdivers remain fine, and you have to give any band that experiments, a bit of credit. Gregory Paul emerges into sainthood with his glittering guitar and soaring vocal melodies (see, “Last”, it’s classic). On “Disapperaing Act”, yeah it has that Edge sound, but a this time in rock n roll so do thousands of bands, it doesn’t detract too severely from the fact it still is a great song. One the albums best, sorry but I can’t read the writing in good light, is cut 11. It’s straight up with nice flowing favors, like a country ride on a sunny day. Sometimes man, that’s more than ok. Contact: Autumdivers, http://www.autumdivers.com, 650-649-23-4 steve@onlinerock.com