| Cavity
Greg has released their second album called Turn It Down. Their first release
was in 2005 and was self-titled. Turn It Down is an eight acoustic influenced
and laced album. When I first looked at the cover I never thought I would
be hearing acoustic tracks on the album. The album was mixed at Westworld
Recording Studio. All the tracks were written by Justin C. Allard and Cavity
Greg except for the track “Hate Breed which was written by Joel Visutskie
and Justin Smith. Cavity Greg is made up of three members, Nelson Shameless
on Lead Guitar, Joel Visutskie on Bass Guitar and Justin C. Allard on Drums
and Vocals.
The
front of the album cover has a black background with a dark blue coloured
gothic woman with wings. The inside is black and white in colour and has
a cemetery scene on the left. The right side has a forestry scene with
a beaten path down the center with the credits for the album overlapping
the picture.
There
are eight tracks on the album, five which are all original songs. The last
three songs have been edited to allow radio play. Two of the edited songs
“Let Me Be” and “Can’t See Campfire Style” lengths have been drastically
cut down. “Let Me Be” lost almost two minutes and “Can’t See Campfire Style”
lost about a minute and a half.
The
first song is called “Hate Rock”. “Hate Rock” is the shortest in length
off of the album. The acoustics are a higher pitched than what you might
expect but the vocals reminded me of early 90’s rock bands but with a darker
side. The acoustics are a finger picked style that keeps the songs flowing.
There is a low sounding bass that is added to the song to give it a deeper
sound.
“Help
Me” is the second track on Turn It Down. The song starts off quietly with
Pink Floyd type of bleeding instrument intro. In this song I liked how
the guitars were bent in a couple of spots. The vocals are a bit raspy
which I find adds some texture to the song. With about two minutes left
into the song, the song picks up the speed and sound with the Electric
Guitar and Drums.
On
“Pretty Bird” the acoustics are played the loudest so far on the album.
This song also incorporates a Violin and Mandolin on the track, which is
played by Brian Hebert. The Violin works really well with the song. The
mixing is well done because you can hear both the acoustics and Violin
and
one instrument doesn’t overplay the other.
www.cavitygreg.com
www.myspace.com/cavitygreg
Matt
Hartwick
m.hartwick@partyinkingston.com |
