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2 2 songs chosen for National TV!
("Lullaby" for ABC Episode #4 Miracle Workers, "Whiskey Glow" for PBS Episode #1 Road Trip Nation),
mention in Billboard Magazine,
and recordings with Radiohead producer of"The Bends"
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ROUGH MIXES from Forthcoming album! (Click below to LISTEN)
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Common Thrill are not on the ultragrrrl list, but made the Billboard 16 bands in the nation to watch in 2006 list. Compared by the Boston Globe to The Doors and Jim Morrison, Jeff Buckley, Roy Orbison, they have a strong guitar and keys flavor reminiscent of Radiohead and Mogwai. They recorded a 6-song EP produced by Radiohead co-producer of "The Bends", the 2nd Radiohead single, "High and Dry", et. al., Jim Warren. From that EP "Morphine Drip" received airplay on WFNX, and "Whiskey Glow" landed on Episode #1 of the national TV show "Road Trip Nation" on PBS. Furthermore an unreleased song "Lullaby" produced by Anthony Resta, due out on their forthcoming full length album was selected for the prime time national TV show "Miracle Workers" (Episode #4) on ABC.
==="A WALL OF SOUND FUELED BY HUGE VOCALS" -METRONOME
==="...THE BASTARD SON OF JIM MORRISON AND JEFF BUCKLEY...." -The Noise
==="JEFF BUCKLEY SINGS "PEOPLE ARE STRANGE" WITH THE PILLS SINGING BACKUP." -- The Noise
==="...IMPRESSIVELY DIVERSE ... FERRY/ORBISON/ISAAKS/MORRISON VOCALS..MOODY ... DRAMATIC .. DOORS-Y ..PINK FLOYD-IAN" -BOSTON GLOBE
===With one foot in the bayou and the other in the eighth dimension, Bostonian five-piece COMMON THRILL combine dirty classic rock riffage with Radiohead-style space-rock. Moody thoughts and sinister sentiment interweave with lush melodies and uplifting choruses.
The opening "Whiskey Glow" rattles in with a JD-soaked riff and a jaded, half-spoken vocal that's part Johnny Cash, part Jim Morrison before landing on a hazy vocal and mesmerising harmonies.
It's got all the dusty menace of a scorpion and is a marked contrast to the dreamy, ambient synths of "Morphine Drip." True to its name, this track pulses with druggy mystery like Mazzy Star as vocalist John weighs in with an eerie Thom Yorke falsetto before swathes of fuzzed-out guitar wash across the landscape.
"Like It Is" takes another left turn with angular New Wave guitars introduce a story of sleazy rock and punchy drama. Like The Killers with added grit, it's final punch in the gut before the blissed-out, off-kilter grace of "All In A Line." Ethereal and anthemic, this is a sweeping sound and another surprising turn of events. And when the final, hidden track comes out of hiding with all the shimmer and dazzle of U2's "Beautiful Day," it only confirms that COMMON THRILL are a band with a supersized bag of ideas and- no shortage of ways to show them off.