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| Nowtoronto |
![The Organ - Thieves [EP] review](http://www.sweetslyrics.com/poze/42955.jpeg) Thieves (Mint) By Jason Keller Dear black-clad, moping Organ fans out there, your favourite Smiths-stealing gang of Vancouver ladies are not back together, so continue feeling miserable about everything. The EP is a proper goodbye note, with new songs written just prior to their unexpected breakup in 2006 (and quietly recorded a year later). How nice they could stand to be in the same room together long enough to cut these songs, some of their strongest work. All six tracks are taut, catchy and depressing, Fire In The Ocean in particular – making you wonder what could have been had they stayed together and followed up Grab That Gun with a proper full-length. Some comfort for Toronto fans: lead singer Katie Sketch has since adopted our city and is rumoured to be working on new projects. ...full text |
| Drownedinsound |
| The Organ should have been contenders. And heck, for a while they were: weaving lonely magic from the threads of the night, this quintet of introverted, dysfunctional Canadian women ended their as career minor music press darlings, all poised for a future that never happened. If they drew on the same brooding new wave influences as any number of mid-2000s bands, then the difference between them and those that survived is patently obvious. Grab That Gun, their sole album, is a beautiful but incredibly sparse record, a pale ghost road of wintry guitar chimes, darkly ruminating bass and Jenny Smyth's ever-present, ancient-sounding Hammond. It was cold as ice, and if anything Katie Sketch's piercing vocals were even colder, but at the same time there was so much feeling and portent in her ever word it was almost terrifying: the sound was brittle, and if you fell through, you'd likely fall forever. If the likes of Tom Smith and Paul Banks come closer to Ian Curtis sonically, Sketch was the only singer of that whole post punk revival who came close to capturing any of his monolithic presence....full text |
| Musicomh |
| It's two years since Vancouver quintet The Organ decided to call it a day, and this posthumous EP release ties up the loose ends and switches out the light with six previously unavailable songs. In their short tenure - just one album all told - the all-girl outfit made quite a name for themselves, their sound characterised by the light melancholia of Katie Sketch's vocals, supported by intricate guitar work and slow moving Hammond organ chords. The songs on Thief mark the cut-off in progress on follow-up to debut album Grab That Gun, on which the band were working in 2006. Showing that musicians can after all get through a group split, they briefly reacquainted themselves to commit the six tracks to disc in 2007....full text |
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