Rest by The Dreadful Yawns

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Country Rock | Folk Rock

10 tracks | 35 minutes

Released Jan 2007
on Exit Stencil Recordings LLC

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Take Gram Parsons, add a bit of the Byrds, a touch of Neil Young and you have nothing like The Dreadful Yawns. Best to just listen.

Editorial review

While the Dreadful Yawns have been described as a psychedelic-influenced group, that might be a misleading indication of how this group sounds, at least on its third album, Rest. In truth, they're simply a quality roots rock band whose music is both intelligent and pretty. If you think that dressing up country-folk-rock with well-placed organ, strings, bells, autoharp, and an eerie vibrating saw qualifies as psychedelic, there's no harm done. But these touches are not used to draw attention to themselves, or make the songs sound deliberately spacy and unusual. Instead, they're employed in much the same manner as the best folk-rock and country-rock bands of the 1960s did: to enhance the songs texturally and draw out their inherent subtle, shifting shades of mood. If the vocals occasionally recall those of Roger McGuinn, they do so in a good, non-reverential way. The album doesn't add up to a major statement, but there are plenty of pleasurable low-key songs along the way, usually offering a slightly whimsical, but not quite world-weary, brand of introspection. It's more Americana than neo-psychedelia, to be honest, but not as dry and unduly earnest as the typically alt-country or Americana band of their age. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Bio / Background

Guided by principal singer-songwriter Ben Gmetro’s constantly evolving and ever-improving songwriting, The Dreadful Yawns have undergone numerous transformations in their tenure as a band.

Beginning with their 2003 release Early on Chicago’s Undertow Music, the Dreadful Yawns began drawing heavily on--and gaining glowing comparisons to--folk-pop luminaries such as Nick Drake and Neil Young (PopMatters). Following the critical success of Early, The Dreadful Yawns became the last band to sign to the legendary Bomp! label, and released their beautifully executed self-titled album, The Dreadful Yawns in 2005. This release saw a more psychedelic side of the band, and garnered them critical acclaim from such storied publications as the Wall Street Journal, as well as numerous comparisons to both classic and modern psych-folk bands such as Beachwood Sparks and The Byrds.