Feel Real, by Graven

Feel Real

by Graven

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1.	You Are Then, I Am Now 05:16	buy track
2.	Beginning Of The End Of Summer 03:59	buy track
3.	Greenskin 02:45	buy track
4.	Dear Matthew 03:47	buy track
5.	The Centre Of Town 03:34	buy track
6.	Basement Of My Disgrace 04:40	buy track
7.	Backwards We Go 02:33	buy track
8.	Lanark County Light 02:57	buy track
9.	Otter Lake Sound 04:20	buy track
10.	Home Is Gone 04:36	buy track
11.	Dark Autumn Nights 03:45	buy track
12.	Underdog Under Fire 03:34	buy track

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Lo and behold, after years of power-pop distorto-melodica, 'Feel Real' promises to be the most interpersonal Graven album to date. Matty has stripped back the layers, and at times, added a few more - but this record focuses on poetic lyrics, childlike innocence, my Ottawa valley upbringing, reminiscing, the scary future, compromise, and the hard and sad truth of everything else in between. It's a mash up of some songs that were supposed to work for a folk album called 'Cottage Rock' (which never really cut the sonic mustard) but smashed together with many other new and more sonically and spiritually daring tracks. Some of the tunes feature Brendan Lorimer and Ben Gresik on various swampy, plucky instruments - but a lot of it is just me; Unfettered and almost like Jon Brooks and Bruce Springsteen sitting down for tea with Billy Corgan in Joel Plaskett's house.

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released February 1, 2013

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Graven Ottawa, Ontario

Graven (Matty McKechnie) is a Nepean, Ontario, Canada-born indie folk musician and songwriter who used to make bedroom rap casettes in his teens under the name “Man Of Steel”. His newest album Simple Complex was mixed by Joel Plaskett and made in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. ... more

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Apr 26

The Horseshoe Tavern

Toronto, ON
Sep 19

The Cove Inn

Westport, ON
Sep 20

Hotel Wolfe Island

Kingston, ON

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