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Press
Primarily instrumental, Push use a lack of vocals to deliver one of the more promising local releases in the past year. A Naive Push To Escapism doesn’t roll off the tongue as a title, but the propulsive, post-rock mix of vibes and intuitive percussion feels effortless. When “frontman” Jon Scarpelli does open his mouth, the elegiac and Blue Nile-esque “The Crawl” becomes the anti-crescendo, and turns the album inside-out. (www.myspace.com/naivepush)
– Steve Forstneger
- Illinois Entertainer
Coach House Sounds has released two new sessions this week, one by Southern Illinois band Headlights, and one by the dynamic group of musicians known simply as Push. There sound is a collection of their instruments, and that might be a negative statement if it weren’t for the diverse range of instruments they play. Marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel, synths, bells, and more have found their way into the groups sound. Their songs fill rooms and as you can tell you the images from their CHS section so does their equipment.
- thedelimagazine.com
Discography
A Naive Push to Escapism (2009)
http://www.archive.org/details/ANaivePushToEscapism
Live at Coachhouse Sounds (2010)
http://www.coachhousesounds.com/push/
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Bio
Something has gone seriously wrong. we have become something uncontrollable... hopelessly spinning, growling, grinding, speeding on a radioactive wave out into the ether, into the black hole, through the stargarte, through what you thought was a wall of new/modern/cool into a world of the irresistible beauty which birthed the monolith called PUSH (clearly the world being described is Chicago). As you wake in your palacial suite to it gazing over you... you can feel it breach the expectation of what a band made up of marimba, vibraphone, synthesizers, drums, bass guitar and melodica could possibly sound like. Possibly like a bird chasing the last cracker on earth, nabbing it, wrestling it to the ground, smothering it with Easy Cheeze(tm) and serving it with wine to the cosmos... productions. We have no "indie" ethic, we don't even know what "the kids" are listening to these days. We don't dress well and we're not interested in impressing anyone but people who want their faces melted (despite the emotional broth which unifies our stew of disparate influences). PUSH is probably not what you expect and that's the best reason we can think of for you to listen up... and we have a giant orchestral bass drum.
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