Ã…lushus EP on sale now!
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"They are in a really great melodic grunge vein right now, reminiscent of Nirvana or The Pixies. They came off as noisy, yet tight, with a really commanding stage presence that lacks any sort of affectation."
-Peter Aleksa, www.bushwickbk.com (May 29,2008)
Ã…lushus EP on sale now!
In early 2007 The Stragglers gutted all their old material and moved from the tiny, Appalachian town of Athens, Ohio, to a tiny, roach-infested apartment in a now-condemned building in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Defying a market-friendly, you-shouldn't-use-phoenetic-symbols-in-your-name-and-it-shou
ld-always-be-easy-to-pronounce approach to music branding, they renamed themselves Ã…lushus ("uh-loo-shus") after a character imagined by guitarist/vocalist Shannon Sullivan in his childhood..
The effect of this transition emerges in the eight songs on Ã…lushus EP, which finds the band murking somewhere between chaos and complexity. Shifting drastically between dug-in grooves and frantic fits of noise, Ã…lushus has developed a sound that looks back to an era when Pixies-style dynamic changes were king
UPDATE: Now broken up, the members of
Ã…lushus continue to make music on their own. Shannon and Andrew are still in New York City, Kevin now lives in Dublin, Ohio, and Kyle is traveling around the world. To hear their latest material, visit their individual myspace pages found below in their friend space.
