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MAGAZINE UK
Psych-rock with a sense of humor from NYC. Forget the Strokes, Grand Mal are the real streetwise hipsters of New York. Spinning stories about the seedy underbelly of city life, they occupy a world where every barroom drunk was once in a band and every waitress a wannabe movie star. And the soundtrack is suitably sleazy, all well oiled licks and a lazy, attitude-laden vocals It all sounds very familiar but, make no mistake, Grand Mal aren’t hitching a ride on the neo-garage punk bandwagon. Since the band first formed in 1995, there have been 40 different members, the only constant being singer-songwriter Bill Whitten. And the quirky psych-pop leanings of their songs, emphasized by the Dave Fridmann (Mogwai, Mercury Rev etc.) production and on “Bad Timing” itself, a piano part played by the Flaming Lips’ Stephen Drozd, makes them a truly unique proposition.
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