Excerpt: “a disc full of emotions that capture your attention… with remarkable results… marked by a great sound overall, the group maintains a significant expressive tension… Measure And Step is an album designed to enthuse the lovers of this kind of music… Fall Electric remains above the ocean of mediocrity of new millennial rock.”
Excerpt: “The album release of Fall Electric’s debut, Measure and Step, plays out more like a grand symphony. For indeed Measure And Step incorporates the impressive talent of this trio… a definite edge on their Australian compadres… ultimately, musicianship such as this seems pretty hard to come by and it’s always a pleasure when you experience it in such a unique and varied way”
Excerpt: “a great album. Acoustics with an electric touch. Fall Electric perform a brilliant mixture of folk, pop and rock. They’re perfectly twisted and bent to the avant side of pop, as well as playing more on the trad side without being boring… Fall Electric’s acoustic approach is so powerful and tough… an extremely fascinating collection of songs, and a band with a spellbinding sound. This could easily end up as one of my favourites from the quality label Hidden Shoal, as well as being one of the my fave top 10 albums this year… Fall Electric sounds like a bunch of grounded spacemen. Measure And Step is a stellar performance.”
Excerpt: “Starting as a three-piece (sans-keyboard player, Stina) the band opened with ‘1977′. With its slow, folky, delicate introduction plucked by cellist Tristen Parr, swampy middle section and Jewish-meets-gypsy folk ending, this song was a good introduction to the many strange faces of Fall Electric. The addition of Stina to the stage allowed for a soaring rendition of instrumental ‘Segue’. Whilst providing the uber-relaxed crowd a cinematic soundtrack to their wine sipping, Fall Electric did well to recreate the recorded grandeur of this one. A slightly sped up rendition of ‘Cold Bahama’ took a while to reach the bite and bile of the album version, but hit its straps with some impassioned beating from drummer Pete Guazzelli. ‘Twine Of Wool’, ‘Faithless Friend’ and ‘Noah’ all featured in a solid second half, which saw the band locking into grooves and building up mini musical melodramas within each song. In a town where mould-perfect pop, rock and metal reign supreme, Fall Electric bring some much needed unpredictability and ambiguity to the ear.”
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