GEM CLUB

dead as digital chose the song ‘animals’ as one of their ‘stand-out singles’.

“In each song on Gem Club’s Acid And Everything you can hear a dirge of the silver trails of these past moments. You can see them wrapped and coiled around the stark piano progressions and string arrangements, and guided in the gorgeous lyrics that drift in the verses and choruses. You come to see each of these songs as a lifeboat.”

read the full article at: http://www.deadasdigital.com/post/803562943/gem-club-acid-and-everything

“i’m a little in love with these tunes. they’re simple, melodic, slow pop tunes that typically only feature the sad chords of a piano, strings, and barnes’s haunting vocals.”

read the full artile at: http://boyattractions.tumblr.com/post/792180470/heres-a-lovely-video-from-somerville-ma-band-gem

“Gem Club are masters of gorgeous melancholy.”

full article: http://bohemiancuddlebox.blogspot.com/2010/07/gem-club-acid-and-everything.html

do you read greek?

“Βασισμένοι στο πιάνο, οι Gem Club παραδίδουν ένα από τα πιο ωραία ep του καλοκαιριού. Κάθε πλήκτρο και ένα βήμα πιο κοντά στην έλλειψη βαρύτητας. Η απόλυτη γαλήνη, μία βροχερή ημέρα έξω από την πόλη, με τις κόρες να γλιστράνε από τα μάτια και να τρέχουν προς τα δέντρα. Έχει κάτι το μαγικό, λες και ανταγωνίζεται την ομορφιά της φύσης..”

full post: http://suicidedots.blogspot.com/2010/07/gem-club-acid-and-everything-ep.html

“Somerville’s Gem Club are Christopher Barnes and Kristen Drymala, and they devoted themselves to wonderfully intimate and slow ballads, with a sad voice supported only by a piano, gentle strings and occasionally some subtle noises in the distance - that’s all, but that’s more than enough to create magic that leaves us baffled and spellbound.”

full post: http://nofearofpop.blogspot.com/2010/06/while-i-waited-for-world.html

“… always dreamy and soft on the conscience.”

full post: http://smokedontsmoke.com/post/711849065/gem-club-acid-and-everything-christopher-and

“Gem Club just wrote a sad and simple and beautiful song, and gave it an enigmatic title. And it feels like an antidote.”

full post: http://toughloverecords.com/2010/06/09/gem-club-sevens/

“Ethereal and dreamy piano ballads emerge from this Somerville, Massachusetts pop duo.”

full article: http://mashable.com/2010/05/31/free-music-monday-downloads-5/

“… falls and settles gently upon the listener, sifting through the corporeal parts of the body and landing almost directly on the soul. What grants this song an immediate passage to the heart? It may be the simple, understated musical refrain on the piano, or the soft swell of the strings under the electrified vocal.”

full article here: http://www.bostonbandcrush.com/2010/05/cd-on-songs-gem-club-acid-and.html

“Their combination of piano and cello create beautiful ethereal airy ballads that whisk you away.”

full article: http://twentysevenviews.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/gem-club-acid-and-everything-mp3/

“Somerville, Mass., soft-focus pop duo Gem Club are Christopher Barnes and Kristen Drymala. Together, they create cavernous-sounding piano-based ballads that, despite their earthly trappings, feel truly ethereal, as if they’re being piped in from another planet bereft of gravity.”

read the article here: http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/14245-acid-and-everythingsevens/

the swedish blog ‘ugglan’ has a post about gem club. do you speak swedish?

“Jag vet över huvud taget ingenting om Gem Club. Ett band bestående av två amerikaner från Massachusetts som spelar sovrumspop. Därefter tar det slut. Vad jag däremot vet är att Gem Club och spåret Acid and Everything fångar mig. Avlägsna pianotoner och en dysterkvist till textförfattare är ibland nog för att skapa något förbannat fint i musikväg.”

full article here: http://ugglan.tumblr.com/post/556569373/gemclub

“I couldn’t ever have been a goldsmith, I’m mediocre with arts and crafts. I’m not patient enough nor tactfull with handmade things. I rather work into the coal mound, sweat for hours in the dark, alone, to find out the stone full of gold nugget… The other day, my pick sticked what I thought to be a big stone, one more. And yet, after I cleant it, I found one of the most beautiful gems. The sparkle of Gem Club is so bright, so intense, that I was totally blind then and I had to look away a few moments.”

full post: http://www.deliciouscopitone.com/2010/04/gem-club/