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Greeley Estates
w/ The Stiletto Formal, Yesterdays
Rising, Bless the Fall, So They Say, Covette, De Sole
When:
6/9/2006 6:30 PM
Where: Marquee Theatre
Went with Lane
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| The five young men
in Phoenix, Arizona’s post-hardcore outfit Greeley
Estates have accomplished the near-impossible in their
brief time together thus far – when the band formed
in late 2002, none of the three original members (vocalist
Ryan Zimmerman, guitarists Dallas Smith and Brandon Hackenson)
had been in a band before; a little more than a year later,
Greeley Estates has earned a cult following that stretches
from Arizona’s Valley of the Sun to the listening
parties at Austin’s South by Southwest conference,
and released a slickly produced and packaged album, Outside
of This, to wide acclaim.
With new drummer Brian Champ
now keeping time for Greeley and new bass player Josh
Applebach, the boys are gearing up to spread their driving
screamo stylistics to further reaches of the nation.
Outside of This brims with introspective
(and often pummeling) odes to heartbreak (“Tear
My World Apart,” “Without You”), existential
angst (“Glimpse,” “Sheltered”),
and hope (“Not Alone,” “If Words Could
Say”). Greeley Estates’ strength at songwriting
– primarily the boys’ flair for dynamics and
emotive musicianship – is the reason that audiences
at their shows crowd toward the stage to sing and scream
along with Zimmerman as he and the band wail through
their set lists.
Greeley Estates is a descendant
of first-wave screamo outfits like Clikitat Ikatowi
and Heroin, with the melodicism of emo-poppers like
Braid and early Get Up Kids, and the band holds it’s
own against contemporaries like Poison the Well, the
Bled, and Thursday.
Perhaps Greeley’s most distinctive
contribution to the post-hardcore pantheon is its infectious
positivity – even the most wrenching tales of lost
love are, in the end, optimistic. “If we can do
something with our music that has an effect on people's
lives in the limited time that we're here, and able
to make that effect a positive one, we just feel very
blessed for the opportunity to make that happen,”
Hackenson says with characteristic humility.
Band description courtesy of
Luckymanonline.com
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