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"Six Months to Live: An Affordable Alternative to Psychotherapy"

With influences that range from the British Invasion to New Wave and modern Indie Rock, Six Months to Live forge... a modern psychosocial amalgam that includes harmonic surprises, time changes, and bridges that never return to the verse, but will instead launch into a crescendo coda. Their lyrics range from brilliant articulations of heartbreak to quirky hallucinogenic wordcraft. With dynamic arrangements that build tension over the whole affair, Six Months to Live often seem like they are balanced precariously over a pit of destruction. And yet, at the conclusion of a show, the audience inevitably has the wide-eyed look of those who have undergone an intensive--and remarkably affordable--session of group therapy. - Enfuse Magazine


"Review of Starting As of Now EP"

Cleverness can turn unctuous at any given moment, which makes Greg "Soapy Argyle" Hill's decision to build a band on that quality seem dangerous, indeed. Somehow, though, Six Months to Live, Hill's latest project, maintains its balance throughout this entertaining five-song preview of a long-player expected next year.

"Eiffel Tower Man" is a veritable charm offensive, led by a smile-inducing melody, cheeky background vocals and a fulsome trumpet solo. Elsewhere, "I'm So Very Blue" brightens up melancholia, while "Henry Kissinger" concerns a dog saddled with the unfortunate name in the tune's title. No wonder he never comes when he's called.

Because Now is too brief (less than seventeen minutes) to wear out its welcome, there's no telling if Hill and pals can keep cutesiness at arm's length for an entire album. But for the span of this teaser, Six Months to Live, which visits the Larimer Lounge on Saturday, November 4, along with the Nancy Drews and Vonnegut, stays on the right side of clever. - Westword


"Critic's Choice"

Over the years, prolific recording and publishing collective Sparky the Dog has issued everything from pirate- and dinosaur-filled comic books to Christmas- and Halloween-themed musical compilations. Founder Soapy Argyle -- an alumnus of Mr. Tree and the Wingnuts, the Orangu-Tones, and Marty Jones and the Pork Boilin' Poor Boys -- recently completed his second full-length with his latest act, Six Months to Live. Honey Bucket is a pop-oriented collection of amusing rural ballads and psychedelia that bridges the gap between the Kinks and Neutral Milk Hotel. Six Months, which also features bassist Shawn Sandler, drummer Mendel Rabinovitch and multi-instrumentalist Matt Shupe (soon departing Denver for an art school stint in Sarasota, Florida), tumbles through the looking glass this Friday, July 8, at the hi-dive for a CD release show with The Way Things Go and Voices Underwater. Singing songs about infidelity, isolation, politics and shitting the bed, Argyle and company boast three-part harmonies, distorted organs and an oddball brass arrangement. Time's not on its side, but the booze certainly will be. - Westword


"Mobilizing Denver's power-pop underground : (with further clarification provided by the band)"

Four Denver bands revive a "lost genre" of rock tonight at Denver's Three Kings Tavern, 60 S. Broadway — power-pop, the post-Beatles rock genre perfected in the '70s by artists such as Todd Rundgren, Big Star and the Raspberries.

Emphasizing ultra-hooky melodies, catchy guitar riffs and vocal harmonies, the form apparently is catching on again among bands such as Denver's Six Months to Live, which shares the stage at tonight's show with the Nancy Drews, the StartUps and the Knew.

Six Months to Live singer and guitarist Greg Hill, aka Soapy Argyle, describes power pop as "basically Beatles-derivative music that has stupider lyrics." [note: SMTL lyrics are not stupid ] He first applied the term to his band after hearing some classic power pop on the radio.

"We were doing our thing and we were actually looking for a genre to pigeonhole ourselves in, because you've got to do that, and I was listening to some Badfinger, and I was like, 'That's us!,'" says Hill, 33. [note: Hill does not know why he said this; it never happened and he does not care for Badfinger] "Badfinger, they have really stupid lyrics generally [note: replace “generally” with “always ”], but the music is redeemed just by the yumminess that it gives. But then you have bands like Big Star, who actually could get kind of profound. So it runs the gamut. I like that."

The bands on tonight's bill won't be the first Denver bands to resurrect the genre — Dressy Bessy, the Apples in Stereo and other Elephant 6 bands did the same thing in the '90s [note: not exactly the same thing. DB and AIS were less power, more pop. SMTL lack the bubblegum component of said bands, especially the former, for whom they opened at the Fox in July and managed to annoy the hell out of (according to the testimony of a third party who was hammered at the time and who therefore might have been exaggerating) by discussing testicles for half an hour backstage before the show], and some of them are still going strong. Still, Hill sees the typically upbeat, fun style [note: SMTL sings the saddest song ever written, I'm So Very Blue] as a good antidote to Denver's often too-cool-for-school indie-rock scene.

"It seems like in Denver there's an audience for everything. But they're ripe for the power pop," he says. "When we started Six Months to Live, the original drummer and I, we'd just seen the Shins play at the Gothic, and we liked that band but we saw them play and we were just complaining to each other about how boring they are on stage.

"The music's brilliant, but they [note: we are not certain who "they" refers to] just stood there, and we started bitching about how the indie music in Denver just doesn't have a lot of emotion and people stand on stage and there's a lot of — I don't want to sound like a mean guy [note: Hill wanted to sound like a mean guy], but it just seemed like they were really trying to look disinterested.

"The way they approach music and songs is they just have this sort of deliberate ignorance, which is great, that's what rock 'n' roll is in some ways, but we just want to put a little more effort into learning our instruments, we want to sing and sing in harmony — I think Denver is maybe ready for something more musically interesting and theatrically fun." [note: after receiving a severe beating, Hill agreed that all subsequent interviews must be conducted with full band present ]
- Boulder Daily Camera


Discography

EP - Starting As of Now 2006

Songs played on 1190 AM, KTCL, KGNU, and various internet stations.

Songs have appeared on the following comps:
Adventure Records Cuvee #3
Public Service Records #3
Adventure Records Cuvee #4

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Bio

"With influences that range from the British Invasion to New Wave and modern Indie Rock, Six Months to Live forge... a modern psychosocial amalgam that includes harmonic surprises, time changes, and bridges that never return to the verse, but will instead launch into a crescendo coda. Their lyrics range from brilliant articulations of heartbreak to quirky hallucinogenic wordcraft. With dynamic arrangements that build tension over the whole affair, Six Months to Live often seem like they are balanced precariously over a pit of destruction. And yet, at the conclusion of a show, the audience inevitably has the wide-eyed look of those who have undergone an intensive--and remarkably affordable--session of group therapy."

-Quoted from Enfuse Magazine April 2007

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Don't worry. Six Months to Live are here to help. We'll coddle you with our eight sinewy arms and rub your hair until you stop your sobbing.

Ahh.

Let the langorous lyrics touch you in places you didn't know had nerves. That's not so bad, is it? Now sink back into the downy bass lines and close your eyes.

That rat-a-tat-tat you hear isn't the sound of branches clicking on your window. Far from it! That's the sound of drums. They're getting louder. You're feeling a whole hell of a lot better.

Would you like to dance? The sonic glee of guitars bursts into your room and lifts you to your feet.

Joy. Pure joy.

This is so much better than lying in bed and feeling sorry for yourself! This, my friend, is the auditory bliss of Six Months to Live. Revel in the glory that is Denver's Popsadelicious answer to all your worldly problems.