Labcoat

This Ogden based has been playing around the region's clubs and festivals for a good chunk of time now, but this is there first album. [The band] plays a fluid brand of rock that delves into blues, funk and soul. While the music is serious, the lyrics, which range from celebrations of the sun to the gnarly dangers of zombie attack, never lose sight of the humorous side of things. The material on the album is all original. Standouts include "Nocturnal Parliament," a song reflecting on band mates and combos that have come and gone, and "Gravity Deception," a bluesy homage [by Grainger] about a friend lost to suicide. Fans of rock that is fresh and unafraid to color outside the lines are bound to be pleased by the work of these self-proclaimed musical scientists. - Standard Examiner GO! Section

by Curtis Critchlow

Utah rock band Labcoat did not form with the intention of being a local "Super group." It's just simply a label that's hard to avoid when your band consists of well known musicians who are all on the forefront in their respective science. Add to the beaker elements of diverse style, instrumental mastery, and passionate performance and the outcome is quite compelling. This genetic mutant of rock-n-roll exhibits some of the best characteristics from genres past, present and future.
...Labcoat is able to combine different styles and personalities into a distinct sound that is at the same time vintage and progressive. Rick attributes the band's sound to their broad, all encompassing view of music, "With the experimentation and the song writing, all the aspects of the other bands I'd been in, that i wished other bands had, Labcoat has. The experimental, the jam, the song writing, everything. It was all there. That's the most imortant part of Labcoat. And the fun is there, and the nonsense and the seriousness is there. It's all aspects of that." - The Ogden Independent