(((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))): GAFF

Thursday, 13 February 2014

GAFF

Band: GAFF

Genres: Punk / Noise/Post/Math Rock / Post-Hardcore / Screamo / Sludge
Related artists: For Want Of, With A Sword On A Horse and Hokaset.
Country: Austin, Texas USA
Years Active: 2012-present
Song: "I Am The Business"
Album: "Roach Coffin"
Year: 2013
Label(s): HFF / What's Left Records
This post's artist is from the February 2014 Mix. This is track #10.
You can download the February 2014 Mix#2 right here.
For fans of: Hot Cross, We Are Empire, Frodus, Secret Arms, Ladder Devils, Kill Sadie
Die Princess Die, Smile To The Wind, Carrion Spring, Moxiebeat, Callow,
Heart On My Sleeve, These Arms Are Snakes, Itto, Cassilis, For Want Of,
Storm The Bastille, Edhochuli, Ice Hockey, Ten Grand, Lord Snow and
Animal Faces, aka PROPER Screamo.

GAFF is a pretty new band that has only recorded two releases, but those releases have been pretty engaging thus far. The band's early work is a strange mishmash of styles that mix the way different colours of paint look when poured down a drain. These different styles compress together and make a very sludgy and thick wall of sound loosely like These Arms Are Snakes, Ladder Devils and Moxiebeat (especially the craziness at end of "Wolves Among Empyrean"). If I were to name just one band, in the end the early demo sounds the most like the final album released by Storm The Bastille - crunchy, heavily distorted guitars which are off-time and come to life with the strained howling of the vocalist. Lots of sludge.

My boy Adam used to play in For Want Of and brings a few sounds from that band into GAFF. This is much more apparent on the new split with With A Sword On A Horse, as he is the only guitar player on that release. This new stuff will appease fans of the super-group Hot Cross, as well as Lord Snow in parts of "Gnarcorrido" which are similar in the extended palm muting and overall song structure (albeit much slower).

The vocals have shifted to a less yelled and more screamed variety with a single vocalist and fit with the bouncier/mathier rhythms that the band is now experimenting with - not to mention they have since added a second guitarist from With A Sword On A Horse, so the band's next release should be absolutely stellar.

I strongly recommend checking these fellas out, as the demo is more than decent and the split has left me salivating.

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DISCOGRAPHY

Click )==>here<==( to download the band's complete discography in mp3 form.

2012 - Roach Coffin cdEP

2014 - With A Sword On A Horse Split cassetteEP
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(2012) GAFF - "I Am The Business" (from 'Roach Coffin')