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THE ORGAN 

THE ORGAN, quintet exclusivement féminin, prend racine à Vancouver en 2001 et a été bâti sur les cendres d'un ancien groupe (Full Sketch) par la chanteuse et compositrice Katie Sketch et l'organiste Jenny Smyth . Un single " Sinking Heart " et des performances lives très remarquées en première partie de groupes tels que Interpol, Hot Hot Heat, ou les Walkmen portent rapidement la formation sur le devant de la scène.

Dans la foulée, " GRAB THAT GUN " leur premier album paraît aux Etats-Unis chez Mint Records / 604 Records : guitares cristallines et obsédantes, chant rappelant étrangement le timbre de Morrissey, celui-ci condense les influences du groupe mais n'empêche cependant pas The Organ de développer un son personnel. Mélancolique et captivant, mélodique et instinctif, " Grab That Gun " flirte avec les Smiths, The Cure ou encore Kristin Hersh.

Et c'est sur scène que la musique de The Organ se dévoile un peu plus encore. Dans la foulée d'une petite série de dates en Angleterre début avril, les cinq canadiennes rejoignaient les Wedding Present et partageaient les murs de la Belly Up Tavern à Solana Beach (Ca), de Blueberry Hill à St Louis (Mo) et de bien d'autres lieux encore. Des prestations sombres, tendues et envoûtantes.

Ce rock canadien féminin The Organ est original... Mention particulière à l’album Grab that gun, dont je vous invite à écouter les morceaux Steven Smith ou le plus rythmé et réjouissant Brother (un écho très net des “Cure”), ou encore Love, love, love. Bonne écoute et bonne découverte!

THE ORGAN - Grab That Gun 1. Brother - 2. Steven Smith - 3. Love Love Love - 4. Basement Band Song - 5. Sinking Hearts - 6. A Sudden Death - 7. There Is Nothing I can Do - 8. I Am Not Surprised - 9. No One Has Ever Looked So Dead - 10. Memorize The City - 11. Memorize The City (Remix) Ecoutez sur Pandora Radio The L-Word: Season 2 [SOUNDTRACK]

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The Organ's "Grab That Gun" releases overseas on Too Pure Records/Beggars Group on April 3, 2006. Here's your chance to see the band in Texas before they spend a few months touring Europe.

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The Organ are a Vancouver quintet, formed in 2001. In a short space of time, this all female ensemble gained rapid exposure with the release of their first EP, Sinking Hearts; and a live show that has spirited them on stage with some of the most significant bands today. A critical and popular favourite, The Organ write melodic and introspective music based on layered interplay between their instrumentalists Debora Cohen, guitar; Ashley Webber, bass; Shelby Stocks, drums; Jenny Smyth, Hammond organ and the intimate and doleful lyrics of their lead singer, Katie Sketch. In 2003, The Organ signed a co-record deal with both Mint and 604 Records. As a result, their debut record, Grab That Gun, is being released on May 25th.

The Organ’s sound has been commented on and debated over from the very beginning, so great is the fascination that it inspires. The Organ s melancholy melodies are intoxicating, writes Cyndi Elliot of Magnet Magazine. The band is consistently compared with the best songwriters of the early 80s new-wave, writing structured songs around minimal arrangements, and creating a nuanced, textured sound that can be brooding and catchy at the same time. The best of many bands can be found here whether it is the weaving counterpoint melodies between organ and bass; the lean, bell-like intonation of sparkling guitars; the charmed tenacity of the snare; or the suspended lamentation of Sketch s cascading vocals and much excitement is borne out of the desire to name The Organ s sound in precise terms. The Organ does it so well, it s hard to believe these kids are in their early 20s, writes John Parish of The Big Takeover. It makes me feel better than the electronic craziness of some of those I love the 80s bands, and almost as sad as I used to feel in the 1980s, and I love em for it. For their own part, the band accepts the associations with an amused detachment. Originally I was trying to do something a little more rock, like Elastica, says Sketch, but obviously it didn t work out that way.

The Organ have played with a wide variety of contemporary bands such as Interpol, Hot Hot Heat, The Walkmen, The Von Bondies, The Soledad Brothers and Bratmobile; and most recently finished a tour across North America with Matador s New Pornographers.The band has become wellknown for the somber intensity of their live performances, which they happily acknowledge as involving very little physical movement on-stage. That s the only way we can be, says Sketch. If I paid Debora a million dollars to jump up and down, she wouldn t. That s just her personality. The Organ s approach is classic European detachment, writes Michael White of Calgary s News and Entertainment Weekly, It creates an enveloping mood, and fully complements the music s soulful melancholy. And perhaps it is a testament to the saliency of Sketch s dark lyrical themes which range from interpersonal relationships to politics that The Organ is so often perceived as a wholly melancholy affair. Organist Jenny Smyth is herself caught between the band s music and its rueful subject matter: The Organ s music sounds really happy and cheerful so I always get really shocked when people say your music is so sad and emotional and I m like *really*! I think it sounds like *la* *la* *la*...

With so much attention already devoted to The Organ s sound and presentation, there remains nevertheless a lasting captivation with their distinction as an all female band. Other people tend to point it out, muses Smyth, Oh, an all girl band! and I m like, I m a girl I m just playing with my friends, says Sketch. We wouldn t have cared if we d found some really great boys to play with us, but instead we found some really great girls. Still, the distinction is not without significance, as drummer Shelby Stocks knows first-hand: her seventh-grade band teacher took her drumsticks away and gave them to a boy, informing her that girls don t play the drums. There was a part of me that wanted to prove him wrong - that girls can actually play. What an idiot ?

               

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