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| | Issue #21.30 :: 07/23/2008 - 07/29/2008 | Release the Pink
Death Becomes
Even the Maiden
Art Bar: Saturday, July 26
| BY KEVIN FOSTER LANGSTON
| As Death Becomes Even the Maiden closes in on its three-year mark, it’s set to loose Pink — its second vinyl single and third release overall.
Folks who’ve caught this pedigreed trio of Eric Greenwood (bass/vocals), Chris Powell (drums) and Heyward Sims (guitar/keys) in the past should recognize both “The Chop” and “The Only Thing I Feel For You Is the Recoil.” Both are fruits of previous studio sessions that were shelved as an exercise of continuity.
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“These two felt out of place with everything else we’d done,” Sims says. “But in all honesty, they might be our best two songs.”
Sims says “The Only Thing I Feel For You Is the Recoil” and the ingredients for “The Chop” predate the band’s debut 7-inch and were considered for the five-song EP, The Arrangement.
“We wanted to save them,” Greenwood says. “‘The Chop’ at least. We knew it was good and different.”
“The Chop” represents the first song Death Becomes Even The Maiden ever wrote for synthesizers, whereas “The Only Thing I Feel for You Is the Recoil” is, as Greenwood says, as musically different from “The Chop” as can be.
Indeed, “The Chop” finds Death Becomes Even The Maiden at its most methodical, allowing the subtleties of Sims’ synthesizers to steer. Meanwhile, “The Only Thing I Feel for You Is the Recoil” caroms along on the brink of collapse with nothing but Powell’s manic drumming holding it together.
“Chris brings a rough animal instinct — an energy you can’t teach,” Greenwood says. “He has that something that makes it wild and unsafe.”
Sims says Death Becomes Even the Maiden has another vinyl single in the works, but in the meantime he likes to think of the band’s future musical trajectory as “an uncompromising rendering” of the two poles of Pink.
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