Album Reviews

Quiet & Calm
Graduation Speech Quiet & Calm
7.0
 on
Friday, September 15, 2017 - 21:31
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Thomas

Graduation Speech is the solo project of Kevin Day, who you might know as the singer/guitarist for hugely underrated New Jersey outfit Aspiga. If you haven’t heard Aspiga before, do yourself a favor, check out 2014’s “What Happened To You?” and work your way back from there.

 

Anyway, “Quiet & Calm” is a pretty apt description of the six songs that make up this EP. Strip away the fuzz-laden, distorted guitars and thundering drums of an Aspiga song and… well, this is what you’d be left with. Six bare-boned songs that consist of nothing but Kevin’s vocals and an acoustic guitar. If that sounds boring, it isn’t. This is a sweet little release for fans of Bright Eyes and Matt Pryor’s solo work to swoon over.

 

Track listing:

  1. Waiting
  2. Chances
  3. Distractions
  4. Daydreams
  5. Aching
  6. Mending

 

 

Tom Dumarey
Tom Dumarey

Lacking the talent to actually play in a band, Tom decided he would write about bands instead. Turns out his writing skills are mediocre at best as well.