Graves

Graves is in fact the pen name for songwriter Greg Olin. With Yes Yes Okay Okay (Hush Records) he guides a cadre of sympathetic musicians (members of Norfolk and Western, Desert City Soundtrack, and Little Wings) on a second outing to a distinctly natural, sweetly exhilarating place. Whereas 2003's Love Love Love (Filmguerrero) found songs ricocheting off each other within the confines of an album - overflowing as they were with texture, mood, lackadaisical melody, and the occasional outburst--Yes Yes Okay Okay dispenses with the restless energy, opting almost entirely for a palate of nylon string guitar, loping bass, crisp drumming, piano, trumpet, hand claps and finger snaps. Herein Olin finds a perfect foundation for his tender, earnest, melodic vocals and just-shy-of-stream-of-consciousness lyrics. It's not surprising that he's been compared to Stephen Malkmus in dishevelment and melodic predisposition, but a more accurate touchstone might be Cass McCombs, if only for the sensitivity in his songwriting. http://filmg.com/thegraves.php http://www.hushrecords.com/info.html