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THE VAL PAPADINS
The Val Papadins' full-length debut, No One Wants to Move the Piano, is a journey spanning the distance between melodic fluidity and stark rhythmic punches. Despite superficial disparity, fusion of these elements creates a winding sense of movement. Through wirey lead guitar lines and deliberately paced vocal cadence, The Val Papadins convey their take on things personal, contemplative and transitory. It's strange. When The Val Papadins play music, they sometimes find themselves in the steep canyons of Death Valley and sometimes in the black hollows of a Russian winter, where not even trains pierce the prehistoric age of night. If they were Nevada Highwaymen, they'd have broken into a St. Petersburg Opera House by now, sending splinters of classical piano exploding into the night on the metallic afterburners of steel guitar. If they were jazz musicians, they would be lost on a great sea of subway systems and sea shanty soul--consumed by the seagull harangue of melodica, underwater dreams and big city blues--like sailors drunk on rum. But they're The Val Papadins. Buoyed by the common ground of Sergio Leone, a good bottle of scotch, and an old hollow body guitar, they make an ominous, beautiful noise that is at once Old West, asymmetrically woven jazz and the lipstick stained rip-roar of classic rock n' roll. Praise from the No One Wants to Move the Piano PR campaign: " The complexity of this disc ensures its grow-on-you nature while the composition and song structures hit home immediately." 4/5 -The Owl Mag "The Val Papadins [deliver] ten very accessible, introspective tracks that sonically create that fuzzy glow oft obtained after slowly glugging down a bottle of Wild Turkey." -West Coast Performer "Utilizing vocal pop hooks, discordant guitars, and dreamy melodies, the Val Papadins move the sucker with sheer musical willpower." -Smother "The band has a mature sound, for sure." -Two Way Monologues "The Val Papadins' No One Wants To Move The Piano is an introspective record that has melodious tracks that will captivate listeners." -The Celebrity Café "It is difficult not to write poetically about this album, it demands it, as though one has to shift and sit outside reality for a little while." -RockFeedback (UK) "There is something very unsettling about this band that made me leave the CD in the player - kind of like how you end up picking up a sketchy hitchhiker that you probably shouldn't have." -Pale Bear "The group are obviously talented players and they have a taste for the unusual - the arrangements are unpredictable, the interweaving of influences is unexpected, everything sounds familiar yet strangely new." -Left Hip "...like some spaghetti Western set against the melting Artic." -Lucid Forge No One Wants To Move The Piano was also reviewed by: Sound the Sirens Redefine Magazine Mish-Mash Music Emissions
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