Artist: Gravel Control
Title: The Whylight Zone
Format: 7” vinyl single
Cat. No: APAREC025

Gravel control: Gravel Control homepage
Apartment Records: apartmentrecords

This is the debut 7” of the two Norwegian pop-heads, Christian Dam (vocals, guitars and bass) and Håvard Berstad (vocals, drums, bass and knobs). It contains 4 psychedelic pop tunes that are drifting along with odd melancholy and what seems to be a naive glance at the world. A nice world, where small green men sometimes are seen gazing at the moon. The dusty homespun production leaves you with a good warm feeling. Dam’s crooked guitar-layers, Berstad’s strange-sounding 60’s-like drums and their slow-going vocals make a very personal sound. Though Gravel Control has a pretty different approach, the influence of Syd Barret and Pink Floyd’s early stages does not go by unnoticed. Musically it’s very different, but they do invoke some of that warm “mushroomy” out-there feeling that we love so much. Fredrik Ness Sevendal (Slowburn, DEL, Kobi etc.) is contributing with some foggy guitar sounds on “Up to the sky”. Cuddling up in the sofa under a blanket with some comics seems like a really good idea while/after listening to the catchy dreamscapes of these two fellows. Comes in thick full-cover sleeve and on heavy vinyl.