Please Check Out This Band

[thesilentdrummer]

Hey everyone. I come to you tonight with a request. Please check out the link below. This is my really good friend's band. If you actually pay attention to my various rants (yah right, who wants to listen to me blab), I have bragged about them on a couple occasions. I don't know if it's just me, but I really think these guys are something special. They are called Handsome Lloyd. They finally hit the studio and have their first album out. I did pass along Brandon's Ten Tips Every Band Should Know Before Going to the Studio, and have told them much of what I have learned here at recordingreview.com.

Handsome Lloyd's Webpage

Additionally, they are in the running for Lollapalooza, a huge music festival in Chicago at the end of the summer. Right now they are ninth, but they need about a thousand more votes to hit the top. So if you have time, please vote for them here.

So comment if you wish, and please vote daily if you can find the time.

[samccart]

consider it done tsd!

they remind me a bit of the black crows

Scott

[thesilentdrummer]

Thanks for the listen. They are 6th currently on the list. It amazes me at how good at networking my friend is. Today, his band rolled in 500 votes. The First Place Band only took 200.

So are these guys for real or am I just under the spell of live music?

[samccart]

they sounded pretty tight on the mp3's i checked out. how long have they been playing together? do you know them personally?

i didnt hear too much that i didnt like, but, they didnt knock me over. maybe it was just the song selection (i think i listened to 4 of their songs) but i didnt hear alot of variety. they were solid in what they had on there though.
hope it helps. keep me posted and i will try to remember to vote for them.

[DT Chris]

They're alright.

My favorite track is Zoo Child. I can imagine this song sounding pretty good and rocking the house live in some of the clubs I've been in.

I wish the vocalist would 'step up to the plate' a bit on these recordings, because when he starts singing, it's almost like he's reciting the song, not performing it. I suspect this has something to do perhaps with the recording environment. I'm sure he'd sound much more energetic live

Lots of potential though. They'd fit up here on the airwaves in Canada right next to The Tragically Hip, Headstones, and Our Lady Peace. They're not an entirely original sound, but I'm sure Canadians would buy their album.

Their mix on each songs seems to favor heavy panning of instruments to far extremes. Guitar is always on the far left, second guitar on far right, vocals slightly off to the right side, drums somewhere in distance.

I actually like the band's sound and mix, just not the strange panning.

My overall vote: Would sound better live, but energy is lost somewhere in the recording process. When the vocalist should be using his gut, he's coming across as not giving it all. Zoo Child is a little more what he should be doing.

[thesilentdrummer]

I do know these guys personally. I am not sure how long they have been together, but its at least 3 or 4 years. Thanks for checking them out, and thanks for any votes you can get in.

Chris: Your assumptions are correct. The band's live shows are incredible. The energy is amazing! The singer did seem like he was being controlled a little. I think the album was withheld a little bit. Their songs were recorded a couple ticks slower and there was a building of energy in the songs as opposed to a total nuclear explosion of energy released throughout the length of songs. I understand the building of energy, but I have to agree and say he didn't get up to full energy.

I wasn't completely happy with the mix (drums too quiet and hard panned guitars), but its now giving them a chance to get their music out there.