braintoy aren't tools ...
my buddy's band braintoy were recently interviewed by Chart magazine ... here's the article:
Braintoy Aren't Tools
Tuesday August 16, 2005
Mowing 'em down with their heavy, energetic art-rock, Toronto-based foursome Braintoy (Brett Fitzgerald, Devin Gasteiger, Riley O'Connor, and Christian Anderson) have taken Southern Ontario and the Northeastern United States by storm as they tour their latest EP, Tremors.
"We feel the glass is half full," beams Fitzgerald, discussing the tour and future plans. "We love it. We wouldn't do anything else. (The tour) has been a blast so far. Once the stars align and world domination is complete, we'll get back to our work on chaotic theories of fractal mathematics and baking shortbread in shapes of anatomically well-endowed snowmen. But you knew that, didn't you?"
Oh yeah, we forgot to tell you that they're also a bunch of friggin' smart-asses. Art-rock tends to bring that out of people except for when you ask the band if people might instantly shrug them off as Tool imitators. They don't dig that so much.
"At first, when you asked us this, I wanted to put together a nice statement that told you how different and unique we are from all the heavy art-rock that exists in the world," he grunts. "We are influenced by world music, classic rock and a few western bands of today, but I don't think we wear it on our sleeves. However, contexts are important and in that light, we find the comparisons complimentary."
Obviously something they've dealt with before, Braintoy truly do stand apart from the progressive art-rock norm with a hungrier sound and far more subtleties and inflections of music outside of the 4/4 guitar/bass/drums realm. Taking the moment to defend Braintoy's musical differences from Maynard and crew, Fitzgerald points out the delicate subtleties his band have to offer.
"We'd like to think we offer a little personality to the aforementioned 'sound' by blending vocal melody with progressive rhythms. We're also offering bribes (and) soon we'll be offering 'protection…' Hopefully, we can continue to avoid complacency. If that doesn't work out, crutches."
Braintoy Aren't Tools
Tuesday August 16, 2005
Mowing 'em down with their heavy, energetic art-rock, Toronto-based foursome Braintoy (Brett Fitzgerald, Devin Gasteiger, Riley O'Connor, and Christian Anderson) have taken Southern Ontario and the Northeastern United States by storm as they tour their latest EP, Tremors.
"We feel the glass is half full," beams Fitzgerald, discussing the tour and future plans. "We love it. We wouldn't do anything else. (The tour) has been a blast so far. Once the stars align and world domination is complete, we'll get back to our work on chaotic theories of fractal mathematics and baking shortbread in shapes of anatomically well-endowed snowmen. But you knew that, didn't you?"
Oh yeah, we forgot to tell you that they're also a bunch of friggin' smart-asses. Art-rock tends to bring that out of people except for when you ask the band if people might instantly shrug them off as Tool imitators. They don't dig that so much.
"At first, when you asked us this, I wanted to put together a nice statement that told you how different and unique we are from all the heavy art-rock that exists in the world," he grunts. "We are influenced by world music, classic rock and a few western bands of today, but I don't think we wear it on our sleeves. However, contexts are important and in that light, we find the comparisons complimentary."
Obviously something they've dealt with before, Braintoy truly do stand apart from the progressive art-rock norm with a hungrier sound and far more subtleties and inflections of music outside of the 4/4 guitar/bass/drums realm. Taking the moment to defend Braintoy's musical differences from Maynard and crew, Fitzgerald points out the delicate subtleties his band have to offer.
"We'd like to think we offer a little personality to the aforementioned 'sound' by blending vocal melody with progressive rhythms. We're also offering bribes (and) soon we'll be offering 'protection…' Hopefully, we can continue to avoid complacency. If that doesn't work out, crutches."
posited by hereis nowhy at 22:32
1 Comments:
"He grunts"? That just gives me a weird visual. lol I laughed at that... Brett's a funny one.
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