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Elude

by Grivo

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1.
HDC 06:06 video
Nights spent as a requiem Our words will haunt our steps Keep me alive for ransom Then leave me when I get Just on the other side Of sleep Still frame caught remembering The way you used to feel Old dreams like a faithful stray Your heart can’t turn away
2.
Render 06:53
Your eyes hang open Our mouths are dry If you keep saying we’re nowhere I’ll believe you’re right Dissolving the moments Then bleeding them dry You keep saying it’s over When I let you down You keep saying we’re nowhere Because I led you Was it easy to leave me? Was it painful to forget?
3.
Burnout 05:54 video
Catch me falling down Endlessly burning out Incomplete I’m a passerby Burdened now But it’s only when you smile And I see what used to be There’s too much to leave behind Bend me to break me down Speak only to drown me out Passively you strung me along To cut away
4.
Opia 06:03
Steady this reckless heart Indemnify my loss Gently lead me away Until I don’t know Which way to go Whispers are on the air And you can’t know their cost Teach me how to convey The words to keep you Before you’re gone
5.
Cave 05:17
Can’t keep away I’ve left a thousand times just to come back Can’t stay this way I can taste the emptiness I know you’ll bring Pacing your empty halls Will you still look for me? Cave in, you’re breaking down With no one around to blame He set the snare She’s lost in revelry You’re left reeling Can’t stand the shame? You’ll feel alive again When you’re leaving
6.
Sonder 03:31
7.
C.A. 03:49
Desperately how they watch you But I can’t stand beside you complacently In sheets of red they wait for the windfall But I’m not scared of anything anymore Cast away Still breathing out your name Selfishly sure Tomorrow will be the same I’m drinking you in But I can’t stop until there’s nothing left It feels the same in its own way But I can’t stand for anything anymore
8.
Elude 04:38
I’ve been drowning in your wake Saviors patiently observing Was I selfish, Was I wrong, To surrender so completely? Stay with me until I need you In the darkest parts of night And like words on the tip of my tongue Your face eludes me I’ve been sleeping under waves Every night they come and find me Am I complicating things, Because I loved you so profoundly
9.
Room 07:30
Fade away with me Back to where I met you Catch the feeling, yeah Slowing down your reason Am I ever really near you? And if I’m not would you pretend? You see I’m making good on something That I hope you’ll understand Shake the room Keep me down then leave me Share my fears with me Let me drown you in them

about

Emerging like an ornate relic of disenchanted youth, Austin-based power trio Grivo unleashes their ominously trudging sound with the debut full length Elude out November 16, 2018. Combining slow, methodical hooks and warm tube amplifiers, Grivo’s massive tones artfully re-establish the link between heavy guitars and downtempo pop to yield a potently encompassing experience. Utilizing effects as an active compositional element, Elude’s infectious riffs are brilliantly crafted and paced to allow the saturated guitars and bruising low-end to fully bloom. Within the tidal sound waves and bleak timbre, Grivo forges a distinctive personal connection that challenges the modern definitions of doom metal and shoegaze.

Born and raised in small-town Michigan, Grivo is led by guitarist/vocalist Timothy Heck who founded the band with his brother and drummer Matthew. The Heck brothers have shared a life-long musical partnership, starting as jazz-obsessed teenagers before diving into the punk and hardcore scenes of the Midwest in their early twenties. After years of intensive touring, they sought new inspiration and slower tempos, opting to relocate to Austin in 2015. Timothy adopted a reserved and accessible approach to songwriting, evoking empathy through minor key signatures while constructing intricate walls of auditory mass. Towing a thin line between genres, Grivo is careful never to fully commit to any style or tradition, allowing for broad crossover appeal.

Elude’s lyrics portray the harsh recognition of the distance between longing and embrace. Candid songs such as “C.A.” and “Burnout” eloquently articulate the pain of unrequited desire and derive sympathy from chorus-laden guitar flourishes. On songs like “Cave,” Timothy’s vocals and guitar leads form a unified voice, often singing into and out of one another to gracefully embellish the melody. Grivo’s chord progressions are composed at the perfect emotional pitch, allowing energy and tension to naturally build and melt into an intoxicating release. The dense fuzz tones on “Room” and “Opia” are brutal, searing the guitar stops into piercing feedback and grinding the edges off the bass lines. This multi-layered use of effects is an essential part of Grivo’s arrangement and identity, orchestrating an expansive variety of color and expression. The cohesive mood enveloping the nine dirges of Elude creeps along at a hypnotic tempo, luring the listener into the addictive malaise and subtle complexities of Grivo.

As the greater music world attempts to anticipate and define the next wave, Grivo has re-emphasized the core of loud guitar-based music. The high level of musicianship and songwriting shine through their rich tonal indulgence making Elude an unforgettable and distinguished debut.

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released November 16, 2018

Grivo is Timothy Heck, Matthew Heck and Ricardo Tejeda
Engineered and mixed by Robert Williams
Mastering by Joshua Eustis
Produced by Grivo
Artwork by Christopher Royal King
Layout by Staci Maloney and Justin Goers

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