catalogue

SOFA

GREY (CONSTELLATION)

SOFA - GREY 48165
format:
1 CD
release:
22.04.2002
label:
CONSTELLATION
item ID:
48165
barcode:
0666561000226
Sofa's five-year run as a band culminated in the recording of this full-length in the winter of 1996.

Tracked during overnight sessions at an East-End Montreal studio, the album is a shrouded, finely wrought song cycle of sensory overload and the sense of loss.

Mixed bone dry and with almost no overdubs, guitarist Ian Ilavsky (Constellation co-founder, Silver Mt.

Zion, Re:) cuts against the metronomic pacesetting of bassist Scott Clarkson and drummer Keith Marchand while Brad Todd's voice alternates between schizophrenic staccato bursts and a devastatingly intimate, densely lyrical, often half-spoken invocation.

One guitar, one bass, one trap kit, one voice. Grey is a mesmerising amalgam of slow core, industro-punk, primitivist math rock and post-hardcore.

"Like Slint and Big Black meeting for a Joy Division reunion" in the words of one music writer of the era.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. ON/OFF
  • 1.2. CH.2CHI.
  • 1.3. MONOTONE
  • 1.4. CURRENT
  • 1.5. 80 000
  • 1.6. RED LAKE
  • 1.7. COMMA
  • 1.8. THE FENCE
  • 1.9. TRAVEL
  • 1.10. STRESS
  • 1.11. MEDICINE HAT