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Band: Silence Dugood
Genre: Folk Rock
This song won awards:
Track of the Day on 16Aug2006 in Folk Rock
Best Drums in Folk Rock, week of 14Aug2006
Most Original in Folk Rock, week of 19Jun2006
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Reviews from other musicians on garageband.com:
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beautiful poignant guitar opening..skilful playing and drum entry..very good
vocals..and excellent mix with male and female voices contrasting..female voice
is brilliant in range and tone..
- peace333 from Nottingham, Uk, United
Kingdom on 17Jun2006
Cat Stevens meets Joni Mitchell
Lovely guitar picking intro to the song. Then that cool riff on the acoustic guitar! Man you can play that thing well! The vocals don’t start until 1:39 and the song is almost at half way point. Although I love the intro I do feel that it is too long.
But when the vocals do cut in! WOW! How cool does it sound with those clever lyrics and the rhythmic approach? I’m expecting bass drums or even electric guitars but all I hear is those tapping drums. It still sounds good because the song has real strength but I’d prefer more instrumentation by the first chorus. The female voice reminds me of Joni Mitchell whilst the male vocals remind me of a snappier Cat Stevens!
Her high vocal at 3:28 is a bit sharp?
I blink and it’s over!!! I mean this song is potentially great! … guys!
Shorten the intro! Add more instrumentation! Add a middle section and add a final chorus with both of you singing in some beautiful harmony and you’ll have a truly great song!
I enjoyed it very much and thank you!
- nitescott from Sydney, Nsw, Australia on 17Jun2006
Unconnected elements.
The instrumental introduction was waaaaaaay too long! Basically there were three disjointed sections to this and then the long awaited (male) vocal finally comes in at the 1:40 point. I thought that the piece was an instrumental by that point. Then at the 2:50 mark an unrelated female voice comes in. Where did she come from?
Too many unconnected elements to this composition. If it's a song, then listeners want to get to the words much sooner. Then listeners need to hear how the two seperate vocalists are connected.
- d3enj from Phoenix, Arizona on 13Jun2006
not folkin rock.
hmmm. this reminds me kinda of our lady peace. if there's a better category for it, i'd move it over. but a pretty good recording. good instrumentals, clear vocals, particularly the chick. that was surprising. not bad.
- permusniac from Morongo Valley, California on 12Jun2006
SKREWTOPS REVIEW
NICE GIT INTRO. DIDN'T PREPARE ME FOR WHAT WAS COMMIN. DECENT GROOVE. DIGGIN THE SHE VOX...LITTLE LOOSE BUT DOOABLE (THE SONG I MEAN.).. A PRETTY SIMPLE MIX. EESSSS OK... A OK JOB ....KEEP EM COMIN
- SKREWTOP from Wasteport, Connecticut on 22May2006
Where's the violin and sax?
Lightly picked descending acoustic guitar line with some brushed cymbals to open the song. Then kicks into a fast strummed chord progression and a snare drum which kind of gets buried under the guitar. Long intro 1:40.
Wow, I was going to say this sounded like Dave Matthews Band, but after the vocals came in, that comes off as an understatement. This kind of stuff was pretty popular when I was in college about 10 years ago. Now, I assume Dave Matthews still has a career, but he's living off of past achievements. I don't know how far you could go with this style now.
Female vocals come in 3/4 of the way through the song. They weren't as good as the male vocal, I'll say that. And they sort of came out of nowhere. If this was a duet, it seems like there should have been more back and forth and some harmonies. As is, Dude sings, Girl sings, Dude sings repeated line one last time at the end.
I don't know. This didn't really do it for me. Pleasant stuff to listen to, but a bit derivative in my opinion. Better than what I've heard at some open mics, but that's not saying much. Overall, I didn't dislike the song, but I'm also not very curious to hear more.
- Fish_pro_audio from Los Angeles, California on 22May2006
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WOW!! I am not real impressed with many bands I review here but yours blew me away. I was suprised because I don't usually like this genre of music. After i reviewed "With the Leaves" I started making all kinds of plans for this song! Like how it would be great music to play for my husband during a romantic dinner or how nice it would be to hear during a country drive or even just a bubble bath! lolIt has a definate mood to it. I am sending you a friend request on MySpace too. I think you really have talent and it's good to hear originality in a world of cookie cutter tunes.
Rock on!
~Heather.
7/28/06
Epic
Let's start with the fact that it takes balls of steel to upload a nearly
eight minute song for the notoriously attention-deficit garageband.com
crew to review. I admit I probably groaned audibly when the time indicator
popped up.
But, then I was catapulted into the song by that lovely acoustic guitar and
the harmonics, and we were off . . This song builds nicely up to the 'So
Alone' line.
An interesting call and response type of vocal in the first segment. Very
tight. The female voice particularly is wonderfully racked with emotion,
she seems like she would be comfortable in many different genres. Overall
the music itself and the performance particularly were very strong
An interesting cross pollenation of styles. There are elements of a lot of
different styles at work here
The banjo and harp passage was particularly delightful then the dobro slides
in and the mood is painted wonderfully.
The weakness, (if there was one) I felt was in the lyrics. With an obvious
attempt at something truly epic, here . . . a few of the phrases seemed a
little contrived; ie. 'feeling so abused'.
I didn't care too much for the dischordant vocal slide at around 3:07. Other
than that, it's an extrordinary effort, and I'm very excited to hear more
from this band. Good luck!
Extra
Credit: Female Vocals, Originality.
knotlenny
Mucklands
(Upstate), New York
May 4th, 2006
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Several of their songs were chosen as the Track
of the Day!
They were featured on
June 2, 7, 26, 29, April
22
May 7/16/17/18/31
and
July
1st
You
can stay up with some of the news on
Silence Dugood's MySpace website at
www.myspace.com/silencedugood
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