The weekend warrior wakes at dawn with
fists drawn. He licks his lips, savoring the
lingering taste of the morning. He takes
his coffee black with one sugar in the raw.
Columbus, Ohio’s Ease the Medic loosen
their ties and march to battle on the plains
of the Midwest every Friday when the clock
strikes 4:59. Dolly Parton put it best when
s...
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The weekend warrior wakes at dawn with
fists drawn. He licks his lips, savoring the
lingering taste of the morning. He takes
his coffee black with one sugar in the raw.
Columbus, Ohio’s Ease the Medic loosen
their ties and march to battle on the plains
of the Midwest every Friday when the clock
strikes 4:59. Dolly Parton put it best when
she said “Workin’ nine-to-five ain’t no way
to make a livin’.”
In their respective previous bands, the
members of Ease the Medic marched with
some of today’s top indie rock mercenaries
such as Mae, Appleseed Cast, Hatebreed,
Brandtson, 764-Hero, Jupiter Sunrise,
Homegrown, Sevendust, and He Is Legend.
As Ease The Medic they have shared the stage with Lynyrd Skynyrd (really), Aberdeen City, Lola Ray, The Working Title, The Bank Robbers, 3 Doors Down, The Felix Culpa and Brazil.
Ease the Medic draws largely from a mid-90s indie rock/post-hardcore tradition: a vast dynamic range which can drop from a roar to a whisper at any given moment, stepping to but never fully crossing the line into math rock, paying homage to hardcore but never giving into hardcore’s restrictions. Slint, Cave In, Shudder to Think, At the Drive In, Sunny Day Real Estate and so many others inspired a generation of indie rockers with the same disregard for formula.
Ease the Medic showcase their study of this tradition on “Riot on the Gold Coast”, their debut EP on We Want Action Records (Tiara, The Sun, Kopaz). The seven songs that make up “Riot on the Gold Coast” were mixed and engineered by Jon Fintel at Relay Recording in Columbus, and mastered by Chad Clark (Fugazi, Jawbox) and TJ Lipple (Aloha, Q and Not U ) at Silver Sonya in Washington DC.
“Diagonals”, the opening track of “Riot on the Gold Coast”, builds to a driving swing, layering guitar feedback and metallic licks beneath howls of desperation before giving way to the shifting, dramatic “Splitting Hairs as a Science”. “Wearing White…” jabs at media coverage with jagged guitar harmonics. Throughout the record, you will find Ease the Medic dancing around traditional song structures. Ease the Medic are complex rockers. And they prefer if you pronounce their name with a Cockney accent. It just sounds better that way.
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