Robert McCreedy : Biography
2005 saw the second solo release from Robert McCreedy, a former member The Volebeats, entitled “It Might Kill You”. A sonic exploration of styles, moods, and stories, the record included a cabal of fellow Eclectone artists including Eric Luoma (Bellwether), Mark Thomas Stockert, members of Big Ditch Road, and Martin Devaney.
Holly Day from Pulse of The Twin Cities describes It Might Kill You as "... full of stories of people not being happy with each other and the things they do. On the opening track, 'It's Not True', McCreedy's melancholy wavers in and out against a beautiful, stark guitar line that hangs by a thread, threatening to fall completely out of tune. The song sets the pace perfectly for an album of bitter beautiful goodbye letters and acoustic reminiscences, punctuated at all the right spots by violins, electronic washes, accordions, vintage organs, echoes and thunder. There's almost enough experimental techno here to make it an electronic album, but it's built on a foundation of traditional flesh-and-blood songwriting..."
Currently, McCreedy is preparing for his follow-up Eclectone Records release. Reports suggest that with drum machines, vocoders, analog synths, and other assorted noisemakers being brought into Underwood Studios, this next chapter will delve even deeper into a new sonic territory. |
