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LUSH Lush presents a vision that is sometimes pure stratospheric waltzing, sometimes ethereal thrash-core, and sometimes (as on the band's version of Abba's 'Hey Hey Helen') just plain absurd," remarked David Quantick in Spin. On February 26, 1990, Lush released their next EP, Mad Love, and its first single, "Sweetness and Light." Produced by Cocteau Twins' guitarist Robin Guthrie, Mad Love provided another step in their musical growth and got the attention of Warner/Reprise Records, who licensed the band's releases in the United States. Lush played in 4AD's "13 Year Itch" celebration at England's Institute of Contemporary Art and joined Rage Against the Machine for a special benefit concert for the Anti-Nazi League at the Brixton Academy. www.grm.net /~ajvande/reads/lush.html   (1250 words)

Splendid E-zine reviews: The Orchid Pool While frontman Tony Paglia adopts a noticeably Emersonian stance in his portrait on the band's website, his lyrics adopt a decidedly lucid syntax, flowing from one word to the next as glibly as a rock skipping across the surface of a pond -- all the while confidently topping the lush, eclectic instrumentation. The Orchid Pool is clearly no exception: with their personalized art, the band exemplifies the home-made cover/good music correlation, as their latest album proves to be one of the most entertaining pop listens of the year. Even bands that previously exhibited a less-than-stellar artistic reputation seem to awaken our underdog-loving sentimentality when they eschew gloss for hand-made packaging. www.splendidezine.com /reviews/aug-20-01/orchid.html   (352 words)

Rock band drummer hanged himself after US tour failure THE member of a rock band hanged himself at his parents' home shortly after returning from a disappointing American tour, an inquest was told yesterday. In a magazine interview earlier this year Mr Acland, who formed Lush with singer-guitarist Miki Berenyi while both were students at the North London Polytechnic, said he had been "through a phase of feeling a bit useless". Chris Acland, 30, drummer and songwriter with Lush since its formation in the late 1980s, had recently enjoyed the success of two hit singles, but he became depressed after the tour. telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/12/05/nlus05.html   (346 words)

Telegraph Arts I want to save big-band jazz While such a futuristic, symbolic technique might be expected from a man whom Bjork cites as one of her favourite artists, the music that follows - the kind of lush, glamorous big-band jazz usually associated with Glen Miller, tea dances and Radio 2 - comes as quite a surprise. The music is lush and easy, but Herbert filters everything his band plays through electronic equipment, improvising his effects on the spot. While a 15-piece band works only if the musicians communicate with one another and work together, modern electronic music tends to be made in isolation, typically by young men in their bedrooms, cut off from the world outside by a bank of technology and emerging only occasionally to give the odd laptop improvisation session. www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/05/22/bmherb22.xml&sSheet=/arts/2003/05/22/ixartright.html   (346 words)

Lush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lush was a British shoegazing band, formed in 1988 by Steve Rippon, Emma Anderson, Meriel Barham, Chris Acland and Miki Berenyi. Critical praise for Scar and a wildly popular live show established Lush as one of the best-selling bands in the new shoegazing genre of pop music. In 1990 the LP Gala, which combined the material from their first three EPs, was released by Reprise in the United States, the first exposure of Lush in North America. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lush   (371 words)

Lush: Ciao!: The Best of Lush: Pitchfork Review One of the neat paradoxes of Lush: as they grew into their mainstream, guitar-pop sound, they also became both more jaded and more concrete in their lyrics. People who might have been previously wary of taking a chance on Lush can now know for certain that if they plunk down their cash, they'll be getting a well-rounded primer on a whole career. Starting things off, however, is a showcase of both the band's late-era poppy side, featuring the Anderson songs "500 (Shake Baby Shake)" and "Single Girl," as well as Miki's hokey, misguided duet with Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, which lent this disc its title. www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/l/lush/ciao.shtml   (688 words)

TrouserPress.com :: Lush Although some songs are not as tuneful as they might be (Lush stood well left of the Primitives), memorable items like the thick "Scarlet" and the float-away "Etheriel" — both co-written by Berenyi and guitarist Emma Anderson — arrange the band's basic components with naîve ingenuity. Lush switched gears on Lovelife, toning down the woolly guitar rush and applying themselves to the fashionable mid-'90s Britpop sound that incorporates both '60s influences and large doses of '70s punk/new wave. Spooky, then, is Lush's first proper album, recorded in one stretch in one place (and with a transitional bassist, the original one having left). www.trouserpress.com /entry_90s.php?a=lush   (659 words)

Starlust's Lush Page Send in anything you have to say about Lush, me or this page, even if its just some weird story about how you met Emma in a bathroom at a frat party in Turkey, I want to hear it. NME said the split was a friendly so thats good, and also leaves the possibility of Lush reforming one day..... Just so you know, Lush was composed of: www.geocities.com /TheTropics/8910/lush.html   (285 words)

Open Directory - Arts: Music: Styles: By Decade: 1990s: Bands and Artists: L: Lush Lysa's Lush Page - Fan site dedicated to the British band Lush. Lush - Fan site contains the usual information, as well as such topics as Miki's hair. Eyesore: Lush - Discography with cover images, and an archive of interviews. dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Styles/By_Decade/1990s/Bands_and_Artists/L/Lush   (188 words)

BILL'S LUSH HOME PAGE Lush were a four person British band on 4AD records. On the Lush front, there's been quite a lot of activity (see news), so that's why. Also, a plea: If any member of Lush reads this, and can correct me anywhere, can you e-mail me and tell me? It would be very much appreciated! www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Palms/9226   (316 words)

Tarentel - The Order of Things (Neurot) Growth is what Tarentel is about as a band, and perhaps it is fitting that their latest album, The Order of Things, is adorned with a photo of lush foliage on the front cover. While still budding, the band has demonstrated over the course of one full-length album and several EPs and singles that they are focused on constantly honing their craft, never being content with releasing material that sounds like what has come before. The band's piano-centered rendition of Ricky Lee Jones' "Ghosty Head" is obviously a first of sorts for the band. www.fakejazz.com /reviews/2000/2001/tarentel6.shtml   (316 words)

Orisha ::: ba n d Orisha is orchestrated with a mish-mash of subtle, pseudo-industrial soundwaves and fields, where patches of the dirty electronic fuse with lush strings and ethereal warmth.The beats here have been crafted from the street. The skills of Lusher and Kavanagh are evident as are the production values adhered to in the creation of Orisha's sound, which hints at new standards. Lusher and Kavanagh have worked together in their sound lab for years as their other identity MPI (Modified Perception Industries - who have released one full length recording in France - BMG/Omnisonus 1997). www.orisha.com.au /band2.htm   (316 words)

Associated Press Article on Lambchop/Nixon Lambchop's latest CD is Nixon, which continues the band's evolution into a soul music unit, with lush string sections and steel guitar played against Wagner's lyrics, which range from sardonic to surprisingly gentle to enigmatic. Wagner is the leader of Lambchop, a critically acclaimed band that records for North Carolina-based Merge Records. Lambchop: Band strives for excellence, but music is described as an 'acquired taste.' lambchop.info /apwire.html   (573 words)

Masters Of Metal-LABYRINTH band members current: Anders Rain (g), Andrew McPauls (k), Chris Breeze (b), Rob Tyrant (v), Mat Stancioiu (d), Olaf Thorsen (g) Labyrinth are now striking back with a new mini entitled "Timeless Crime" based on a very original concept taking place in the lush and magnificent Republic of Venice !! The original line-up got together in 1991 just like all other bands' history as some sort of garage underground metal band with still a very rough idea of what business is all about. www.truemetal.org /mastersofmetal/labyrinth.htm   (573 words)

Delusions of Adequacy Reviews - Denali The rest of the band accompanies her perfectly, building or fading as needed, developing a lush sound that is both beautiful and bleak, but always haunting. But if you’re familiar with the backgrounds, this album is a prime example of a band coming into its own. Where Denali’s first album consisted largely of songs Maura Davis had written on her own before asking her brother to gather up some friends and fill them out, this new one is much more developed. www.adequacy.net /reviews/d/denali.shtml   (573 words)

Beherit - Unholy Black Metal Themes from "Drawing Down the Moon" and other Beherit works are sparsely cited in material of which the majority is new and of a new version of the creative essence behind this band, crafting subtle progressions of riff and layer over the course of each song to create a technological micro-opera. Majestic excursions into lush harmonization and its internal counterpoint of uneasy balances between notes, the music of Beherit vomits its internal motivation into a conceptualization of desire on a mythological level, in which darkness and light conspire for a creation that is unending, eternal, and massively dwarfing the existence of humans. Existential issues overflow and the pure rage of life and sustenance seethes throughout diligently planned narratives in which the extraneous disappears in favor of nothingness or paralyzing intensity. www.anus.com /metal/beherit.html   (859 words)

lush page! Here's a.jpg of the cover of one of Lush's CD's. Here's a nicely lit photograph of the band. Get me out of here, I must've clicked on the wrong spot! www-personal.umd.umich.edu /~rlab/lush/1lush.html   (39 words)

Fort Worth Weekly Online -- fwweekly.com Music Cabaret Voltaire The band used "found," or natural, noises much like Phillip Glass and Brian Eno, with snatches of conversations and aural oddities to create a soundscape that is multi-layered, dense, and lush. Back in the early '80s, when every band with a synthesizer was labeled New Wave, industrial-electronic forebears like Throbbing Gristle, Suicide, and Cabaret Voltaire were dumped into the same bin and disappeared into music hell. Listening to these c.d.'s, which were originally released from 1979 to 1981, is like opening the door of the past to fall headlong into the future. www.fwweekly.com /issues/2002-02-28/listenup.html   (39 words)

* Dusted Reviews - Vetiver * The album is filled with lush acoustic textures (almost every track features violin and cello, courtesy of band members Jim Gaylord and Alissa Anderson, respectively) and unassumingly effective arrangements. Banhart, despite being a full-fledged band member, only co-wrote two of the eleven tracks, and sings backup only occasionally, and Newsom is confined to a few harp flourishes on a single track. Vetiver frontman Andy Cabic keeps good musical company: Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Hope Sandoval, and My Bloody Valentine’s Colm O’Ciosoig all appear on his band’s self-titled debut. www.dustedmagazine.com /reviews/1484   (39 words)

Shoegazer Band Web Ring Home Page Bands that followed -- most notably Ride, Lush, Chapterhouse, and the Boo Radleys -- added their own stylistic flourishes. I know personally I hate to always categorize bands as this or that style of music but this is a movement that has inspired many musicians (including myself) and fans to appreciate these great bands and their music with the overall sound. Many great bands are part of this movement/style and are featured in this webring regardless of being a current recording band, a local unsigned band or a legendary pioneer that has called it quits. www.angelfire.com /tx/Brian817/shoegazerhome.html   (405 words)

CD Reviews Both bands had lush arrangements, and both utilized electric violins, and the rough male / clean female vocal trade off, which was not so cliched eight years ago as it is now. The band burst on the scene almost simultaneously with the "Sins Of Thy Beloved" in 1997. My initial reaction of course being "zuh?", because as a long-time fan of the band, I had never heard this term applied to their music. www.geocities.com /urotsukidoji_1/cdreviewstristania.html   (813 words)

BNR Metal Pages -- Tristania Tristania is one of the leading atmospheric gothic metal bands playing today, taking the dual male/female vocal style pioneered Theatre Of Tragedy and combining them with lush, symphonic orchestration, while remaining a fully metallic band at its core. Following the release of the aforementioned Veil album, mainman Morten Veland left the group to start his own band (Sirenia), which might have been cause for alarm amongst Tristania fans. Indeed, their 1999 effort, Beyond The Veil, is a near masterpiece, with seemingly everything but the kitchen sink thrown in for good measure -- from harsh black metal vocals, to soaring female soprano voices, Gregorian chants, pianos, keyboards, violins, it's all melded together seemlessly. www.bnrmetal.com /groups/tris.htm   (145 words)

Metallian.com England's progressive metal band with lush melodies, political overtones, deliberate statements and powerful imagery is back with a great album that is not going to disappoint. Given the band's renaissance, it is interesting to hear what West and the other Thresholders feel the western side of the pond holds for them. There are many bands that are doing music which has more complexity, the lyrics have more depth, the music has more depth and there just is more music there. www.metallian.com /threshold.php   (10902 words)

SWANS - Article CMJ The Final Sacrafice Over the course of ten studio albums and a slew of EPs, singles, live records and "official bootlegs," they've developed from a slow, rhythmically potent noise-rock band into a slow, rhythmically potent avant-rock singularity equally capable of lush, stunning power and dark, semi-acoustic dirges. And the imminent release of a final Swans double live CD makes the band's legacy anything but dead. Swans' mastermind and founder has made it known that he's seriously put that price on hacking off his right pinkie. www.swans.pair.com /PRESS/art_CMJ.html   (573 words)

Naval Academy Band Academy Band concerts were totally thematic, complete with scripts and narration using a fifty-five piece band instrumentally capable of any sound from the classics to a lush, studio recording sound. Band members were to be paid from the appropriated funds of the Academy instead of the regular pay of the Navy. LCDR Fluck was assigned as Assistant Director of the Naval Academy band in July 1987 and became director of the band in August 1988. www.usna.edu /USNABand/History/history.html   (7626 words)

The QUILL Records Story: Press File Among the gems on "The Quill Records Story" are two lush Beach Boys-inflected tracks by the Exceptions, a Chicago unit that included a pre-Chicago Peter Cetera; snarling garage punk by the Exterminators, the Delights, and the Riddles; and lots of derivative but entertaining folk-rock, pop, and power punk. Before he helped found the band Chicago, he sang and played bass in the Exceptions, a band that graces the cover of this collection of 25 songs by 15 Midwestern bands that, from 1965 to 1967, released singles on the long-defunct Quill label in Chicago. However, the disc is a fascinating time-capsule of entry-level bands of mid- to late-'60s. www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Palladium/9229/quillion.htm   (3009 words)

:: Metro Pulse Online :: Where more conventional bands would perform traditional songs, Primordial Soup is guided by the film’s editing, the changing scenes from the Gelflings’ lush, natural world to the Skekses’ dark industrial realm. As its line-up ebbs and flows with each performance, the band’s ultimate goal (or Hullander’s anyway) is to behave somewhat like its name, which refers to the original organic gunk that gave birth to more complex biological entities. After recruiting musicians from the jazz and rock community with the irrefutable pickup line, “Who wants to be in a band that doesn’t rehearse?” Hullander set up the band’s first show last January at the Pilot Light. www.metropulse.com /articles/2005/15_32/music.shtml   (873 words)

New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock PH-PL The band's music on these three albums was a mixture of rock/progressive rock and Romanian traditional music (the latter notable in the rhythms, melodies, the use of traditional instruments, percussion and unison singing). Pierrot Lunaire (M.P. Records MPRCD 007D) is essentially a folk-based cycle of shortish compositions, full of pearly acoustic guitar, lush and lambent piano and affable vocal melodies with a typically Italian profile. This band from Greece recorded one album in 82, which was almost immediately banned due to its blasphemous lyrics, and all unsold copies of it were destroyed. www.gepr.net /ph.html   (10808 words)

filter magazine - reviews - M83 If you came to the concert tonight not knowing who the band was, you definitely left the show with a good idea and maybe some cd’s and shirts to remember. Crowd favorites included “Unrecorded” and their single “Run Into Flowers” which starts off with a synth beat which is soon accompanied by a burst of guitars and whispered vocals as the song built to a lush harmony. The band opened with “What You Love, You Must Love Now” and as I looked around the room I saw nothing but couples indulging in the beauty of the music. www.filter-mag.com /reviews/interior.258.html   (688 words)

Longview, Further Although Longview may stray a little too close to M.O.R for some, the band know exactly how they want to sound and make no apologises for being a melodic guitar band who rarely turn their amps up anywhere near 10. This is a re-recorded version of the song released last year and now includes improved production and lush strings. Longview do not hide behind any pretences, and ‘Further’ is a perfect portrait of their music. www.heathenangel.co.uk /further.html   (688 words)

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