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THE ORGAN : Sinking Hearts EP
from The Georgia Straight

Judged by its recently released debut EP, Sinking Hearts, the Organ has made a monumental amount of progress in a short time. Clocking in at an economical 14 minutes, the six-song release revisits a time when The Smiths, Joy Division, and The Cure were the bands of choice for four out of five angst-ridden teens. In the tradition of the early-to-mid '80s postpunk movement, technical proficiency isn't nearly as important as setting a mood. Coming on like hair metal, grunge, pop-punk, techno, and the rawk revival never happened, The Organ has crafted a strong batch of songs that sound like they're straight out of a Thatcher-era time capsule. One spin through "It's Time To Go," "Sinking Hearts," or "No One Has Ever Looked So Dead," and you'll be slipping on a black trenchcoat, slapping on the uni-sex raccoon eyeliner, and heading off to the kind of nightclub immortalized in The Smiths' "How Soon Is Now?". The bass lines could have been written by Peter Hook, the guitar playing suggest an eternal indebtedness to Johnny Marr, and Sketch's detached-from-this-mortal-coil vocals gives you a pretty good idea what a child produced by Morrissey and Siouxsie Sioux would sound like. The wild card is Smyth's keyboard playing: her Hammond is equal parts '60s garage rock and B-movie horror film, and that alone separates The Organ from Ladytron, the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and the hordes of other up-and coming acts that are currently fixated on a decade they weren't around to experience. -Mike Usinger

THE ORGAN : 7"
from The Ubyssey

The Organ is the incestuous projeny of local bands Full Sketch and The Ewoks. Their first 7" reportedly conceived at Bryan Adam's studio, has all the hooks of "Reckless," but with way hotter musicians : Sarah (bass), Katie (vocals), Deborah (guitar), Shelby (drums) and Jenny (the organ itself). Featuring an immaculate production that highlights all of its elements in an unusual display of aural democracy, this record had me from the first line of the A-side, "We've Got To Meet."

Opening with just bass and organ, a steady and melancholy tone is set, then exploded through with the plaintive vocals 'Oh notice me/We've got to meet,' and piercing guitar. The effect is clean, haunting, and intense. The B-side, "Time To Go," maintains the same tempo and mood.

The music is catchy in the sense that it lingers with you. Like the one in my living room, The Organ is best played in the dark with clunky headphones. -Kim Koch

THE ORGAN (live)
from The Georgia Straight

Where the Von Bondies and fellow Detroit troublemakers the Soledad Brothers sounded hell-bent on creating a distortion-fuelled blues-based explosion, local opener The Organ was a throwback to a more advanced time in music. It was impossible to tell if the all-female Vancouver five-piece was doing its best to project an air of hip detachment or whether the band members were just a tad nervous. Whatever the case, it worked, as did the group's sort set, which gave not from the garage, but seemingly more from the practice space two doors down from The Cure. -Mike Usinger

THE ORGAN (live)
from North Shore News

An early peak in the three-day festival, The Organ were one of the definite standout bands. The five-piece band carries a stage presence that puts the listener on a fine balance of uneasiness and total enchantment. The vocals are haunting and the instrumentation is a fine balance of pulsing bass, yearning guitar and a was of, you guessed it, organ. -Joe Martin

THE ORGAN : 7"
from Exclaim!

It's easier to enjoy melancholy if it's somebody else's. A good example takes place when you spin this Vancouver band's debut seven-inch on your turntable, as The Organ grind out their sorrows in a way that was done so well by '80s bands like Joy Division and The Cure. The deliberate tempo of the music really allows the haunting Hammond to fully shine on both songs here. Look forward to bigger things from this band, as the five girls in question only got together in August of 2001." - Scott Ingram

THE ORGAN (interview)
taken from E.peak.
READ IT HERE!

SINKING HEARTS
2.4 MB | 160 kps

IT'S TIME TO GO
3.3 MB | 160 kps