Shirt

Quotes about Shirt:______________________________________________ "Wander no more through the desert of post-rock. You have come upon a golden staircase to the ionosphere. Leave behind your earthly vessel and thrill to the cold embrace of space. Untethered, floating through the ether, prepare to broadcast. Prepare to dissolve." ____________________________________________________________ __ "Shirts urgent, exposed rock songs have been heard throughout Brooklyn for the past two years, gaining them a following based almost entirely on word-of-mouth. Shirt creates an amazing balance lyricism and complexity, the result lying somewhere between rock and improvised music. Listeners of Sonic Youth and Blonde Redhead are likely to fall in love with Shirts music." ____________________________________________________________ __ Reviews:____________________________________________________ __________SHIRTReview by Eli Finkelman.__________________________________________________ ____________Shirt's got something most New York scene bands don't: Musical chops that would make most downtown rock stars afraid for their lives. The foursome's fingertips bulge with virtuosic muscle creating a bold, avant-garde soundscape, cacophonous enough to please The Mars Volta, yet earthy and raw enough to engage garage rockers everywhere. Keep your mind and your ears open. While Shirt's sound is made of sword swipes, its message is made of gossamer, and may float over your head and out of your life as easily as a whisper. Their gods are planted dirt-deep in the details. These are young, jazz-trained cats who have assembled to jump the high-bar: to make rock and roll from jazz and have it sound like neither. A worthy goal, one forged in decades ago by bands like Cream. And in our epoch (may it live on forever!) of skinny ties, four-four time, and down-down strokes, Shirt has taken a route that goes defiantly up and up. ____________________________________________________________ ____