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GoGoGo Airheart
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San Diego, United States (1996 – 2006)
San Diego, CA’s GoGoGo Airheart began writing in 1996 at the hands of core members Mike Vermillion and Ashish Vyas. After two years of relentless basement rehearsals and a string of homemade cassettes, GGGAH were picked up by local indie label, Vinyl Communication. Augmented by drummer Andy Robillard and violinist Teri Hoefer, the group recorded their self-titled debut LP in 1997. Combining virulent dub inflected rhythms, spasms of skittish, wirey guitar and Vermillion’s signature breathless vocals, “GoGoGo Airheart” stands as a distinct blueprint of post-punk’s progressive ideals and dub reggae’s elastic studio wizardry (due largely to experimental producer/ collaborator, Spacewurm).
Following shortly thereafter, 1998’s superb “Love My Life, Hate My Friends” LP emerged to meet the group’s increasing word of mouth popularity. “Love My Life” finds GGGAH in darker spirits, a hybrid of late-seventies post-punk (The Pop Group and Public Image Ltd. in particular) and homegrown American art-rock (Pere Ubu, Rocket From the Tombs) are channeled through Vyas’ mutated funk bass lines, Hoefer’s twisted yet sublime saw-like violin and Vermillion’s intensely oblique and personal lyrics. 1999 caught GGGAH at a crucial point; both with Touch & Go subsidiary Overcoat releasing the highly regarded The Things We Need EP to significant critical acclaim and boasting the introduction of guitarist Ben White and temporary drummer Jimmy LaValle (Tristeza/The Album Leaf) in wake of the departure of Hoefer and Robillard.
Following shortly thereafter, 1998’s superb “Love My Life, Hate My Friends” LP emerged to meet the group’s increasing word of mouth popularity. “Love My Life” finds GGGAH in darker spirits, a hybrid of late-seventies post-punk (The Pop Group and Public Image Ltd. in particular) and homegrown American art-rock (Pere Ubu, Rocket From the Tombs) are channeled through Vyas’ mutated funk bass lines, Hoefer’s twisted yet sublime saw-like violin and Vermillion’s intensely oblique and personal lyrics. 1999 caught GGGAH at a crucial point; both with Touch & Go subsidiary Overcoat releasing the highly regarded The Things We Need EP to significant critical acclaim and boasting the introduction of guitarist Ben White and temporary drummer Jimmy LaValle (Tristeza/The Album Leaf) in wake of the departure of Hoefer and Robillard.
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Exitheuxa
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Shoutbox
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jedimind64 wrote:
they suck
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Annaabi wrote:
Horribly underrated. My favourite song against all odds is Love the Depression.
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jarossamdb7 wrote:
I like these guys quite a bit. Gotta say my fave CD is Rats! and Im sure that is contrary to many people on here...
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C18H21NO3 wrote:
The review is indeed ridiculous.
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renurenu wrote:
i’ve just found this article: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/gogogoairheart-rats/ by pure chance, browsing for GoGoGo Airheart related stuff. I’m posting it here as an example of the incredible stupidity of nowadays music criticism and its immense lack of taste, its lame-ass-ness and primitivism. Articles like this one should be remembered in order to remind us in what a fucked up cultural surrounding we live in, and how people who are even familiar with the current music scene are not only unable to grasp the genius character of certain art forms, but they do not even understand what concepts like “retro” are at all about and what at all means to be innovative. discussions about taste are hopeless, i know, and thus the only thing I can do is say that a person who labels GGGAH as a “retro-post-punk band” simply doesn’t speak my language and frankly, doesn’t speak any language at all. now i can go and throw up.
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renurenu wrote:
the fact they had to disband reflects the shame of this totally fucked up lame-ass indie-hipster culture.
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niekenjorien wrote:
http://www.last.fm/group/De+Albumclub/forum/107178/_/511909
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kayaksalad wrote:
xcelnt
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Zapoppin wrote:
My favourite band currently. Their debut reminds me of tuning some kind of weird radio and picking up snippets of pure greatness then retuning and so on...it always surprises me. I don't think I've been so pleased by such musical diversity since I heard the Butthole Surfers.
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HighTides wrote:
Not that good of a name, but still better than Les Savy Fav. I can't even listen to that band I hate their name so much.
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Albert_Transom wrote:
Horrible name, though.
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idioma wrote:
@ shit_ears. I lost my copy. But it's their best album.
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shit_ears wrote:
Why doesn't anyone listen to Out Of Every Window The Snap Of Envy And Greed?
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wooden_indian wrote:
Any fans of GGGAH should check out Mike's new band The Deadly Fins. Good stuff.
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forgetmenot wrote:
GGGAH - nice abbreviation :D
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johnny-mnemonic wrote:
so so so so so so much underrated ... this band is simply ingenius. Highly intelligent, energetic and hardly categorizable music.
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truefiction123 wrote:
heck yeah
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DisorientedBird wrote:
GoGoGo Airheart is tons awesome.
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