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"Autistic Love"

To the majority of the musical world, most people see grunge music as dead. However, Hamilton's own Autistic Love seems to be proving that the days of the grunge-sound seem to be far from over.

Autistic Love is a Hamilton-based grunge, geek-rock band made up of three college/university guys. While their sound is on the verge of becoming more perfected, the guys have only been on the scene for the past ten months with a total of eight shows under their belts.

While Autistic Love may be only in the early stages of playing shows, the band has been together for quite some time. Guitarist Chris Kendell and Bassist Rick Gunderman met back in their days at middle school but didn't get into music together until high school.

"I started playing the drums in high school because I thought it would be fun and easy way to get into music. Chris and I then started jamming together. It was a year and a half later that we actually decided to start something. I played drums and Chris was on guitar. After awhile, we started looking for a bassist," said Gunderman.

However, they stumbled upon Chris's old baseball buddy Shane Fuller.

"When Shane came into the mix, he offered to play drums because he had been playing for years. So I decided to pick up the bass from there. Then the rest is history," said Gunderman.

Even with their line up finally settled, the guys did not find a chance to play with each other very often.

"We did not officially start till three years ago and then we did not 'seriously' start until this past September. Before it was just an off and on thing. Every seven months we would decided to just get together in Rick's basement and jam," said Chris Kendell.

After quite a few practices together, the guys felt that they were ready to start playing some shows around Hamilton.

"We had a couple songs and just thought we were ready. So we bugged Brody at the Casbah, but I hadn't received word back. So I figured we'd try again another time," said Kendell.

"I was gong to see Rackula play at the Casbah for the show that we would have been playing at. I looked at the line up and I saw that we were playing. So I told Rick and Shane to drop everything because we were playing that night."

"We had about 24 hours to get ready for that show," chuckled Gunderman. "It was actually shorter than that. We had an hour to get ready for our first show," said Kendell.

While the Casbah only marks their ninth show, the guys really flow well together and it can be seen through their music. They do not have one specific genre they class their music as, and they prefer to mix it up in all their songs. "I like to call us geek rock," says drummer Shane Fuller. "Kind of like Weezer-grunge infusion. Mixed with Blue Man Group and Flipper," said Kendell. "Everyone tells us it sounds like Nirvana. Someone at our last show told us it was a very Nirvana feel so I think our music speaks for itself," said Gunderman.

With their grunge-like sound mix with several other genres, their August 9 show is not to be missed. For a great sound, solid set and just a good old time, Autistic Love's show is a must see for music fans. "We just want people to have fun, enjoy the set, the energy and the atmosphere," said Gunderman. - Nightdreamer Magazine


"Autistic Love's Manufactured Cool"

Autistic Love’s Manufactured Cool
Like many musicians, Chris Kendall (guitar and vocals), Rick Gunderman (bass), and Shane Waller (drums) were school chums whose interest in music might have developed once they realized they might never be the cool kids in high school. Taking reference from the music that most affected their youth, Autistic Love, grew out of a love of the dissonance, off–tune, manic, metallic and energy grunge of the early
‘90s. With Autistic Love’s debut CD, Manufactured Cool, if you long for the days of flannel jackets et al., you’ll want to take note.
“I guess we’ve been around for five years just being noisy in a basement, but we have been playing shows for about two and a half years now,” notes Kendall. “We don’t mind the term grunge; after all, it’s just a sub–genre of punk anyways. For all intents and purposes, you can call us a grunge band we don’t mind. We prefer the term punk, but grunge will suit us.”
Recorded live off the floor at the Hive Studios, Manufactured Cool is raw and unforgiving. Perhaps not necessarily the plan but still apropos for the heart of these unruly slabs of rock.
“Since we are a punk/grunge band we took that ethic with us going into the studio as well that we knew the songs like the back of our hands, we were going to bang it out on one or two instrument takes, and we got everything on one vocal take,” offers Kendall on the recording of the new disc. “We’re not trying to be something we’re not: here is the music we like and want to play, if you don’t like it too bad, we’re not going to change it for anyone. It’s a real punk–rock attitude we have when it comes to our music and how we send the musical message across.”
The photography, fonts and artwork on a whole conjures up Sub Pop albums of old – offering an astute nod to an extreme influence.
“We had the idea of Bleach and other grunge punk albums in mind when we went to record,” admits Kendall. “Nirvana is our collectively favourite band, we will never deny that. Having a live shot of the band on the cover is nothing new, it’s been done to death – we just really liked that idea, and wanted to pay a tribute to our new wave forefathers.”
So Soundgarden, a new version of Alice In Chains and even Nirvana are
all having new releases this year so it might seem logical that a newer generation take hold of a music that speaks to them and makes it their own. While some elements are an homage, Autistic Love can’t help but smudge some new shades out of the grunge pallet. And as for the live show, Kendall assures the band mimics a ‘90s stage aesthetic as well.
“We essentially take all of the things we love about music: loud, recklessness, and pure artistic expression and combine it with an energy explosion,” explains Kendall. “We aren’t your standard band; all robotic and lifeless playing like they think the world owes them a living on stage. We like to be noisy, and we’re a bit chaotic at times jumping about from one end of the stage to the next. We are just up there to have fun.
“Grunge rock is now more accessible and mainstream than ever before, save for the early ‘90s,” adds Kendall. “The cool thing though, is now it’s a new generation of kids, like ourselves, who never saw these bands in their heydays but still have those goldmines of albums to listen to and convert us into fans. There are millions of grunge fans out there – we just need to find them and get our CD in their hands.” - The View


Discography

Everybody Dance Now Vol. 6 - "Forgiveness Cheese" featured
Manufactured Cool - 11 track Cd. Released July 14th, 2011

Everybody Dance Now Vol. 6 is a C + C Music Production. It is exclusively run by the two local college/university radio stations Mohawk's 101.5 INDI FM, and McMaster's 93.3 CFMU. They collaborate at selected what they believe as the top 42 songs they've heard over the course of 2011, and which have received the best feedback from listeners and put them on this compilation album.

Manufactured Cool was recorded in August 2010 at Hive Studios in Hamilton, Ontario. We had the CD in our hands by mid September 2010, but due to school conflicts, and the fact that CD duplication costs a lot of money, we had trouble raising the cash up until July which is when we released it at the Casbah in Hamilton to great acclaim. This album is 10 tracks long with a secret track added on to the final song on the album.

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Autistic Love is the lovechild of many other long-dead and buried bands. They are slowly turning the alternative-underground scene in the GTA on it's head. Combining a sheer love of music, energy, enthusiam, and pure passion to create a sound that they believe is music in its purest form: filthy, yet harmonic. We try hard so you don't have to! Just kidding. Well we do try hard. All we care about is making music, and really don't care if it doesn't fit some popular mould for today. All we do is listen to music we all agree is awesome and then try to replicate it and attempt to make it cool again.