Description:	CD on Upset The Rhythm
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Experimental/Math/Noise Rock
	Label:	Upset The Rhythm
	Price:	£10.29
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4
...according to our Dave on 12 November 2009.

The Gentle Friendly 'Ride Slow' LP then... .This two piece have a touch of class about them. Their songs have variation, its not all about pace or volume with these guys. They have some catchy hooks and great stream of consciousness lyrics. They sound harsh but sweet, usually at the same time. Some of this LP has a experimental quality which sits quite nicely with the poppier elements. It's good, a bit of shade and texture. One of the songs is about tidying up, another song is about the police. It goes to some strange places this record. The musicianship's a pleasure to listen to. It makes me want to go into the future and start a band that sounds just like them, maybe even play their tunes and try and pass them off as my own.Well done Upset The Rhythm!!

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Sound clips for Ride Slow by Gentle Friendly: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Upset The Rhythm, UTR031 , £10.29.

What their label says...

*  Gentle Friendly is a pair drawn together in harmonious pursuit of this relationship between noise and pop, conflict and comfort, aggression and ethereality. David plays keys and provides the vocals that sit just below the surface; Daniel plays drums and organ, responsible for both the percussive incessancy that characterises passages of their material, and its counterpoint tones of enveloping warmth.
*  Ride Slow is their debut album the culmination of well-received adventures in limited-run releases, the most prominent being 2008’s Night Tape EP on No Pain In Pop.
*  Peckham, south London is where Gentle Friendly craft their art, shaping creations invisible to the eye but perfectly apparent when lids close and analysis of superstructures ceases. Listen beyond constituent pieces to embrace a whole that is far greater than simple summary outlines: that they employ feedback; that some of their equipment could pass for antique; that they probably own an Animal Collective record (even if comparisons began after they’d properly heard them).
*  Influences, Gentle Friendly have them, and inevitably some are detectable. Yet this is a band unafraid to shift their perspectives, to realign their intentions. So while they can move you physically one second, the next they’re able to move you in a wholly different way, as a banshee shriek fades into a lovelorn sigh and drums fall silent to allow an analogue pulse to present itself to the fore - organic, honest, real.
*  Everything is as live - sampling culture eschewed in favour of tape loops and effects boxes. As such Gentle Friendly’s sound is oddly evocative of the past, of both post-punk scratchiness and early minimalist pioneers like Reich and Eno, and entirely contemporary. They are isolated within a field of young, ambitious musicians daring to do something different: not exactly alone, but far from being part of a scene.
*  FOR FANS OF: Animal Collective, Abe Vigoda, Fuck Buttons.
*  Tracklisting: 1. No Infinity On 2. Rip Static 3. Clean Breaker 4. L.A. Welle 5. Lovers Rock 6. Shrines & Shit 7. The Real RIP Static 8. Police & Love 9. Real Fighters 10. Vincentt 11. No 808 On 12. Patty Island 4 13. Sleng Teng 14. Illuminate His Face 15. Earths Move