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Article: Gravel Pit mines dark `Silver'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 16, 1999
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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, ...