Biography
SMC members, Brian Fisher, Joshua Broughton and Jason Curtis have formed a new electronic/post-punk band called ATTENTION SYSTEM. stop by and check them out on Last.fm:
http://www.last.fm/music/ATTENTION+SYSTEM
If Slow Motion Crash is any indication, Atlanta is fertile soil indeed. Made from the building blocks of Brian Fisher (vocals, guitar), Ryan Holmes (guitar, vocals), Joshua Broughton (keys, vocals), Melissa Giorgio (bass), and the recently added Jason Curtis (drums), SMC has combined serious song crafting sensibility with a quirky, eccentric indie feel. The band has created a bottom-heavy sound, featuring a precise layering of melodic and discordant guitar riffs punctuated by semi-electronic landscapes and dance-laden drums.
Slow Motion Crash’s self-titled record has been released to rave reviews in the cloistered Georgia music scene by publications including Georgia Music Magazine, Performer, and Creative Loafing. With its thought-provoking lyrics that grab and tease and meandering guitars that push and pull, the record has a sexy, claustrophobic sound that’s somehow simultaneously kinetic and languid. Combining elating highs and abysmal lows, the band has created a piece that inspires and jars from start to finish.
Slow Motion Crash’s live show is as impressive as their studio work. Merging a blood-pumping, energetic performance with such accessible songwriting has garnered the band a wide, multi-demographic following. Drawing as much from the dynamic alternative music audience as from the ultra-hip indie rock scene as from the depths of the goth horde, SMC’s pounding, stuttering rhythms have forcefully driven and sweetly persuaded star-eared concert goers from the Southeast to Midwestern US.
Reviews:
"(The members of) Atlanta's Slow Motion Crash have logged some serious time in the shadowy corners of this music, incorporating the anxious atmospherics into a sound that invites comparisons to other bands without slavishly imitating any of them. The spiky keyboard riff that laces through "5th and Incident," the insistent drums and dissonant guitar clash of "Trail of Tears," the quirky push and pull of "Mirrors & Conflict" – these moments nod to the joys of your older brother's crates of old Love and Rockets and Fugazi records while creating a melancholic tension that rings just as true in the here and now. "
-Kevin Forest Moreau, Sunday Paper
"Slow Motion Crash, have channeled their love for ‘80s new wave/goth into a new hybrid that sounds totally relevant in 2007. These songs have catchy, sing-along choruses, and the band members are not afraid to whip out a synthesizer to get their point across, and good for them. Sounds that were at one time considered passe are now new again — and actually refreshing…tracks that make up this release are grandiose, proud songs that are performed with conviction and no sense of self-importance."
-Jon Dawson, Performer Magazine
"These local boys and girls sure do play some gothically ethereal (or ethereally gothic?) shit. Joy Division and Interpol comparisons are inevitable. Thankfully, they do put their heart into it, resulting in some ass-shaking jams and dark lyrics that actually sound convincing."
- Mark Sanders, Creative Loafing (Atlanta)
"Back to the shade again, just in time to catch Slow Motion Crash…my, oh my could they play…Another jaw dropping moment. Come north young lads, come north;
I have just the venue in mind."
-David Anjo (VoodooFest Reviewer), The 50th Year Project
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