Darediablo
Feeding Frenzy
© 2003 Southern Records
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An instrumental guitar-keyboards-drums trio "consistently pushing out thick, unadorned, intellectual rock and roll" (PitchforkMedia.com).
tracks
- 1 The Hornet
- 2 Behold The Panther Stone
- 3 Feeding Frenzy
- 4 Celebrity Shark Week
- 5 Slide Rule
- 6 Under The Table
- 7 Dark Horse
- 8 The Rig
- 9 Crockett & Tubbs
- 10 Reisenberg
- 11 Red Shoes
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2003 - New York City's Darediablo are one of the unlikeliest rock bands to roar out of the newly christened Rock-n-Roll Mecca in along time. Eschewing the standard 4-piece, the trio employs guitars, drums, and keyboards, including Hammond organ and Fender Rhodes, to kick out deceptively complex riffs, angular solos, bone-jarring rhythms, juggernaut bass lines, and atmospheric harmonics.
"Feeding Frenzy", the band's SOUTHERN Records debut, is an explosive document of Darediablo's emergence into their own sonic space.
If hard pressed, you could say that as much in spirit as in style they call to mind the threatening crunch of AC/DC, the spring-coil tightness and groove of the Meters and the atmospherics of Deep Purple - comparisons so far-flung they probably don't help much. The massive low end of their sound comes from the chunky bottom of Jake Garcia's guitar sound pared with bass lines played on Matt Holford's keyboards, anchored by Chad Royce's sinewy drumming.
Darediablo's influences reach much farther back than the bulk of their "instrumental rock" peers. They are an updated but dumbed-down version of the classic organ trios of the 1950's -- here the guitar accounts for a full third of the sound and often leads the band, the drums crack the whip but keep the reins in tight and the keyboards have wider a vocabulary of textures to fill out the rest.
More importantly, Darediablo, in the words of the venerable Village Voice, "rock with more power and finesse than most bands twice their size and wattage", which, when all is said and done, really is the bottom line.
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WOW
author: tsHoly CRAP i love this! No wonder its a "pick" by the admins. I had to write a review 15 seconds into my preview. I *will* buy
Great power & kick!!!!!
author: Albin (Liszt) ListGreat band with Deep Purple Hammond power and heavy raw sound. I agree with a previous review (they sound like Deep Purple in their garage days).
35 minutes of attitude and confident playing
author: Nicholas A.Music to blare out of the speakers, driving cross-country in a muscle car on a hot summer night with the windows down. The fuzz & sustain are visceral, the tweaking with the time signatures is subtle & creative, and the music stays interesting over multiple listens. The other reviews hit it well.
A no-bassist trio hasn’t sounded this cool since Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop!
author: Elias GranilloI’ve pulled this CD out again after neglecting it for many months, and it is just killing me! The brick-heavy plodding Purplish groove of “Reisenberg,” the hymn-like swagger of “The Hornet,” the false ending of “Red Shoes” thanks to the dirty fallout of sustained feedback from which there is nowhere to hide: Feeding Frenzy adds up to eleven consecutive Jim Kelly-assisted roundhouse kicks to the head! Jake Garcia’s gritty guitar tone, Matt Holford’s keyboards (Hammond, Rhodes, synths) and Chad Royce’s up-mixed drumkit bond together into a tri-pronged offensive which boasts more rhythmic twists and compositional fortitude than most projects of this ilk since vintage ELP and Quatermass — and this rocks much harder, to boot! If Medeski, Martin & Wood can be heard on major radio stations, why is Darediablo absent from the same playlists? The sour-sweet vibe of “Slide Rule” could easily remedy this. The equation is simple: Darediablo is to rock what Niacin is to jazz and funk! A no-bassist trio hasn’t sounded this cool since Guitar Shop by Beck, Bozzio & Hymas. I can’t wait for Darediablo’s new release, Twenty Paces, due out this March! I simply need more of this, and more of it now. Call it a Veruca complex, if you will.
Great instrumental guitar&organ rock
author: TorbenI have hardly bought any CD with new music the last 10y; but I stumbled over CD-Baby, browsed through a lot of pages, listened to about 100 Cds, bought 8, and this one is on the top three of my new discoveries. Nice grooves, good variation, great sound. Some of the other records I bought had good intentions and a few nice numbers; but the quality was not very consistent. There is no real flaws on this one (though #3-5 are perhaps slightly better than the rest IMHO). You also might want to consider "Humble Colossus" by Plankton, another great CD in a similar style.
Meaty...raw.
author: HatchetThis was well worth the change. Another pumping iron cd. This is fun to practice leads to. I really dig the raw sound of the guitar in the mix. Well I will keep listening to it cause it jams. Its just that simple.
- author: CD Baby
Once again, Darediablo delivers another infectious, signature album with crunchy low end guitars, interwoven bass lines, highly active drumming that takes as much part in the music as anything else and psychedelic-toned organ riffs, giving this premium, 70's-informed, instrumental rock band even more appeal. With wide-ranging influences and qualities from Pink Floyd to King Crimson and explained by the band as, "the threatening crunch of AC/DC, the spring-coil tightness and groove of the Meters and the atmospherics of Deep Purple," the band reaches far beyond your typical instrumental rock genre for a cumulative sound that can only be understood through sound.
Really, Really Great!
author: Gerard Tremblatt (Tremble)It's good to hear Hard Rock with no screaming bull. I enjoyed the Cd and plan on getting more by the band. Good Luck.
Driving and TIGHT!
author: Bruce Lomet (CHINASKI)Darediablo produces music that is meant to be played LOUD. Driving and tight, at times they sound like a ballsier Primus. Taking progressive music to another level, the tracks on Feeding Frenzy will satisfy your musical soul many times over.