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Grade: A
"Ah how I love hidden treasures! This ep came beautifully packaged in a
simple cardboard mailer and is a pleasure to listen to. While they cite
Bedhead or Yo La Tengo as possible influences, you might also hear traces
of some more peaceful sebadoh songs. The real power on this is how the
lullaby quality of the songs (not sleep inducing in anyway though), blends
perfectly with the semi-subdued vocals. [T]here's real potential for a
future with this band." --Geek America (www.geekamerica.com)
- www.geekamerica.com
"A band well known around the Big Apple for their live shows, which often
involve extended, airy instrumentals,
organ music, strong guitars and harmoniously shy vocals, Minutes into Days
is Skycam' first non-demo release since
they formed in 2000. A bit like My Bloody Valentine without as much
wooziness, or Jets to Brazil with a little
more hope, this is a shoegazing band that, in a more just and beautiful
world, would have infinite success."
--Junk Media (junkmedia.com) - www.junkmedia.com
"[Skycam's debut EP] Minutes Into Days finds the quartet coalescing into a
neo-psychedelic folk unit of
considerable impact. Guitarists Trevor Bajus and Joe Schorn keep the pace
and the fuzz orbiting in the vicinity of
Luna... while bassist/Keyboardist Denise Finnegan lends a textural hand to
the sound as she tosses
in a few Throwing Muses references along the way."
--Amplifier Magazine
- Amplifier Magazine
"Lo-fi, heavily layered indie rock, Skycam delivers a. melodic set of
songs. They easily go from blasting guitars
and throwing down a loose, jangly beat to sparkling, jagged rock, using a
female vocalist in the background to add
a pretty layer of harmony while the band keeps things loose and rockin."
--In Music We Trust (www.inmusicwetrust.com)
- www.inmusicwetrust.com
So, quite frankly, when faced with the ominous challenge of asking a band to follow Clem Snide on this KEXP-sponsored bill at Sin-e, other than a reunited Uncle Tupelo or REM, there wasn't any other band that came to mind than NYC's comeback kids Skycam.
Playing I believe to be their third show after returning from a much lamented year + hiatus, they put on a sparkling as if they never left performance that had even my punk pop friends in the audience jaws agape with how damn good Trevor and Joe's guitar work was. As a whole, Skycam puts on the kind of show that screams for a Bowery-esque setting to it, but even on Sin-e's modest but well fucking lit stage, their spacey electric jangle of their songs were far from lost in translation.
We can only hope as self-respecting (at least before the dreaded third Manhattan) that Skycam makes it a full-fledged return to our collective consciousnesses by playing out more and more - bands this fine and this talented are few and far between - making the times they do play all the more special.
- www.jenyk.com
Discography
Almost, LP to be released Fall 2006
Minutes Into Days, EP self released 2003
You'll Never Know How Close You Came, EP Demo 2001
Songs can be heard at www.myspace.com/skycammusic
Radio Crystal Blue New Music Sampler, June 25, 2006.
Photos
Feeling a bit camera shy
Bio
"...a group as talented with as great songs as they will be sure to
rebound in one form or another. There's just too much goodness involved to fade away into the sunset..."
(Jasper Coolidge, www.jenyk.com)
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and Skycam is back in their original form as a 4 piece and playing shows again after nearly a two year break. The band, at its best moments, is guided by Denise's heartbreaking bass/keyboard melodies riding the beat. Joe and Trevor's guitars weave in and out, locked in each other's grip like punch drunk fighters threatening to take the audience down with them. Exchanging vocals, Trevor, Joe, and Denise fill the music with voices and words that tell stories of loss, hope, breakups and make-ups, always with a whole heart and a half smile.
Newest edition, drummer John Connell, who first helped the band by filling in for their 2003 Knitting Factory show with Luna, brings more than just his rock steady skills to the band. John, the creative force behind Junior and Sons and drummer for Kings County Queens, has become a permanent fixture in Skycam just in time to help
collaborate on some of their best material to date.
Skycam split in 2003 after three years of playing shows at NYC venues
Knitting Factory, Sin-e, North Six, Pianos, and the gone but not forgotten Brownies and Luna Lounge, sharing the stage with some of the great bands of this new century, including Luna, Shiner, Elk City, Rainer Maria, Dirty on Purpose, Sea Ray, Clem Snide, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The National, Apera, +/-, The Poster Children, and many others. When the band parted ways in 2003 they were just coming into their own with the infectious energy of their live performances and the release of the higly regarded EP Minutes Into Days.
After two years of separation, the band is once again pulled back
together by the irresistible pull of the music.
And since then , they've been working on material for a new full-length LP.
Skycam: Minutes into days CD-EP
Grade: A
"Ah how I love hidden treasures! This ep came beautifully packaged in a
simple cardboard mailer and is a pleasure to listen to. While they cite
Bedhead or Yo La Tengo as possible influences, you might also hear traces
of some more peaceful sebadoh songs. The real power on this is how the
lullaby quality of the songs (not sleep inducing in anyway though), blends
perfectly with the semi-subdued vocals. [T]here's real potential for a
future with this band." --Geek America (www.geekamerica.com)
"A band well known around the Big Apple for their live shows, which often
involve extended, airy instrumentals,
organ music, strong guitars and harmoniously shy vocals, Minutes into Days
is Skycam' first non-demo release since
they formed in 2000. A bit like My Bloody Valentine without as much
wooziness, or Jets to Brazil with a little
more hope, this is a shoegazing band that, in a more just and beautiful
world, would have infinite success."
--Junk Media (junkmedia.com)
"[Skycam's debut EP] Minutes Into Days finds the quartet coalescing into a
neo-psychedelic folk unit of
considerable impact. Guitarists Trevor Bajus and Joe Schorn keep the pace
and the fuzz orbiting in the vicinity of
Luna... while bassist/Keyboardist Denise Finnegan lends a textural hand to
the sound as she tosses
in a few Throwing Muses references along the way."
--Amplifier Magazine
"Lo-fi, heavily layered indie rock, Skycam delivers a. melodic set of
songs. They easily go from blasting guitars
and throwing down a loose, jangly beat to sparkling, jagged rock, using a
female vocalist in the background to add
a pretty layer of harmony while the band keeps things loose and rockin."
--In Music We Trust (www.inmusicwetrust.com)
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