Article: Gravel Pit mines dark `Silver'

If there is such an animal as a silver gorilla, this well-titled album would be soundtrack to the big beast's life. Gleaming and brawny, meaty and agile, the Gravel Pit's new CD, "Silver Gorilla" (Q Division), is as familiar as the swinging fellow at the downtown zoo -- with an equally dark, inscrutable heart.

One of Boston's most popular bands, the Gravel Pit has taken the straight-ahead hooks that saturated its debut album, 1995's "Manifesto," and twisted them into stranger shapes, colored them in decidedly deeper shades, and wound up with a pop album that bristles. A retro feel infuses most of the songs, rooted in songwriter/organist/singer Jed Parish's devotion to all things Fab Four, ...

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