Artist description Unique soundscapes assembled to create a sense of mood and location. Sometimes incendiary, sometimes bouncy, sometimes lush and contemplative, with lyrics that never fail to provoke the imagination, Squelch's creates music that welcomes you in despite its uniqueness.

Music Style Complex, emotional progressive alt-rock with pop hooks.

Musical Influences All over the place

Similar Artists Built To Spill, Bowie, XTC, Radiohead, Queen, Pavement, The Damned

Artist History Squelch's began as a recording project in order to record something different, and shake up the grunge-oriented Dallas music scene. Jason English and Chris Smith had been working out some songs and enlisted the aid of other like-minded local musicians to round out the sound of the album. The fruit of the sessions, "Valium Effort" was a collection of 11 songs that captured a wide variety of genres into a strangely appealing whole. From there, bassist/vocalist English, drummer Smith and guitarist Miller decided to play a show or two and hand the CDs out. Out of the ensuing practices and many shows, the trio began writing new material that was too interesting to ignore... so they decided to continue on as a band. Their sound is still evolving today, becoming more complex... and more accessible at the same time. Greg Shows joined as lead vocalist in May and the band recorded 7 new songs. The entire collection will be available on MP3.com in August. Squelch's is currently playing out, and writing songs for their second complete album, due winter 1999.

Group Members Jason English: Bass, vocals Brian Miller: Guitars, vocals Greg Shows: Vocals Chris Smith: Drums, percussion

Instruments bass, guitars, drums, vocals, etc.

Albums Valium Effort -- 1998, Collect All 4+3 -- Summer 99, Love Is The Problem -- August 2000

Location Dallas, Texas - USA

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