The 1990s was plagued with the emergence of rap-rock as a popular form of music. Lucky for us we can look back on it and laugh and viscously judge those who fell into the Incubus/Linkin Park/Some other poorly named horrible bands not worth remembering trap. But, out of that blackness there was a band, Grüvis Malt from Providence, Rhode Island.The shame of Grüvis Malt was that, despite their overwhelming talent, they came on the heels of the rap-rock shitstorm, which meant their particular brand of jazz/hip-hop/rock (which they dubbed "futurock") went relatively unnoticed. I saw them as rapper Sage Francis' opening/backing band in 2002. In my opinion, their masterwork was 2002's ...With the Spirit of a Traffic Jam... a multi-genre opus with a message (these cities are gonna kill us). A sample:
Grüvis Malt - Destination by BubbleWolf
After Grüvis Malt broke up, their frontman, Gavin Castleton started doing his own thing. I hope you enjoy having you mind blown.
And.
It's a shame bands that people would most likely like, and like a lot, can fall by the wayside so easily.
Dig what you dig,
Erik
word.
ReplyDeleteI love Gruvis Malt myself, but lets not forget that on the first incubus album "Fungus Amongus" they specially thanked gruvis.
ReplyDeleteAlso on Destination, the song you showed Incubus' DJ rocked the turntables for them.
Now don't get me wrong, I will visciously judge everything after fungus amongus bahaha
but anyway, Gruvis is godly, Ebu Gogo is amazing (If you haven't already, check them out, it's brendan, gavin and justin from Gruvis) and Gavin alone is amazing.
In the words of Gruvis Malt:
Music Should Evolve.