Anodyne - Equifinality
Name: Anodyne
Album: Equinifinality
Released: 2007
Members:
Mike Tilson-Vocals, Guitar
Jeff Smith-Bass
Josh Cousteils-Drums
Zach Bujold-Guitar
Website: www.myspace.com/anodyneband
Record Label: Revelation Sound Studios
Favourite Song: Track 4 - Growth to Decay
I don’t normally copy and paste… but here’s what the band says about themselves on unsigned.com:
…we are not a band that needs shitty production, shitty vocals, shitty musicians and shitty hair cuts to do what we want in this diseased music scene. Forgive the cynicism but since when is the success of a band determined by how many myspace friends they have, or how many kids with the same goddamn hair, makeup and clothing come out to a show where every fucking band plays the same riff, screams the same way and is just as sad that their girlfriends dumped them. There is more going on in the world than this fucking scene…
…So listen loud if you like it, dissect the words and music because thats why we wrote them. And if you dislike or disagree with it then at least you were smart enough to give it a chance.
Now I rarely dissect words to a song, but I do enjoy listening to them. I doubt they’re writing their music exactly for people like me… but I’ll enjoy it. Whether they meant for me to or not.
Rock. Experimental. Other. Other?? Great. There’s an even more generic category than “Rock” or “Pop.” Well screw that, I am not putting an “Other” category on my sidebar. But Other…. sure, whatever you guys want! I enjoy the rock aspects of the music, very familiar in the “I haven’t heard this sound before, but it’s nothing I would be offended with” sort of way. The experimental stuff, I guess is mixed in with the rock stuff. But I do really think highly of the instrumental tracks and the parts where the vocals are not much more than whispers of what at first seem like sweet nothings. I like this mix of style.
The individual songs all seem pretty different from each other if you try to analyze the music. If you casually listen (like I do on a regular basis) it’s hard to tell that it’s even the same band. Sure elements are similar, but Anodyne seems versatile enough to keep me engaged and actively-passively listening for probably hours on end.
I will definitely be putting Equinifality into my car CD rotation. Thankfully to do so I don’t need to pronounce, nor spell, the name of this album, I’m having enough trouble trying to pronounce Anodyne. Generic house parties? Yes, this will be in my party mix as well. The usual places people listen to music. I might even try my mp3 player when I finally go to the gym again. New years resolution & all.
