Band Spotlight: Backyardin With Ravenous

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*editor's note: this interview was originally part of the Splendid LP review, found here.

Taylor, of Ravenous.

Toward the end of August I was finally able to sit down and chat with the three main members of Ravenous, after weeks of rescheduling (on my part).

When I arrived, sometime after noon and before three PM, the bandmates and roommates were all watching A League of Their Own. The movie was at its most crucial scene; Geena Davis' character had just beem pushed off home plate by her younger sister, and dropped the ball. The guys debated whether or not she'd dropped it on purpose, or if it'd actually been knocked out by the sheer determination and force of the younger sister to prove herself.

In any event, every one could agree that Geena Davis was hot. A bit of trivia regarding her high IQ, served to solidify her attractiveness.

Band Spotlight: Ravenous Manifests Splendid LP

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Indeed! 

In July Bushwick basement-band Ravenous released their debut LP, entitled Splendid.

Splendid is an enormously satisfying offering to anyone who loves mid-90s alternative rock, and  finds themselves, from time to time, nostalgic for the union of gentle strumming with intense banging, and whispering reflections with belting self-exploration.

Lead singer, Ogg's vocals are immediately familiar, but not exactly easy to place. He's somewhere between Willy Nelson and Rivers Cuomo, while sounding dreamier and softer than the former, and firmer and realer than the latter.

Splendid's instrumentation flows richly all over itself, much like the fitting cover art. On "Summer Stench," guitar riffs lead you one way, overlap themselves, and turn you around twice, before pushing you beneath a waterfall of refreshing drums.  "WWBMD," could have very easily been released in 1997 as part of a major motion picture soundtrack - with its happy distortion and scratching, confused lyrics, fake ending, and roaring instrumental climax.