Artist description weve just released our new ep entitled "the ritalin ep" check it or us out soon

Music Style fucked up pop music done dayton style

Artist History formed in mid 2002 with Ian Kaplan (Lab Partners) and Bruce Hull (Late Nite Drivers). Have since joined forces with Chris Common and Nickles Testa

Group Members PJ Paslosky, Nickles Testa, Tommy Cooper, Jeremy Apland, Christopher Common

Instruments vox, bass, guitar, drums, loopty loops

Albums Bi-Polaroid EP, The Ritalin EP, The Kids Are All Dead LP

Press Reviews What do Ween, Blur, The Oranges Band and maybe Enon have in common? Im not sure either. Like a dog whistle or that extremely low frequency that makes you crap your pants, Im not sure if any similarity would be obvious or apparent to the naked ear. But when the guys from The Dead Like Presleys pool their nervous energy and extraterrestrial songcraft in a tweaked alternative sonic universe of pure, chemically-induce imagination it aligns these pop powerhouses in just such a way that (if you listen really closely) youll hear it too. But slapping their quirky and abstract aural geek strut on the platter is the only way youre gonna ride this glass elevator Charlie. There is something pleasantly organic about P.J. Pasloskys bratty vocal melodies, and the three-guitars-deep circular riffing of "Little White Spies." And the rubbery synthesizer flourishes and stacatto cat calling on "Friends in the City" are surprisingly endearing. But things get decidedly seedier by "The Sun Is Such A Tease," where the quartet is showing their teeth, in that menacing, dark-psychedellic, ear-to-ear-Cheshire-cat-grin kinda way. On "Wires In The Virus" plodding, off-kilter chording follows canned electronics into a swampy and open-ended two minute jam. "By The Water" is an off-the-cuff acoustic jam that seems just a little too off-the-cuff to this listener, but coming off the discs high-point "Get Up, Get Off," which shows the band at their most focused (and adhering most closely to the traditional rock formula), Im willing to forgive them. Ironically, the listener who is willing to trade their anti-hyperactivity meds for a week long nitrous bender will have the most satisfying romp through the Dead Like Presleys out-of-focus, sonic poppy field. -Tim Anderl www.bettawreckonize.com

Location Dayton, OH - USA

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