Artist description Scary Rides Home’s newest effort Subfitti Grafliminal is an ambitious limited edition concept album. It is a 2-CD set featuring a 34 page full color booklet, 31 songs and nearly two hours of music! Both members are well-versed in a variety of instruments, acoustic and electronic. John handles most of the vocals and Spook supplies most of the instruments. Together they produce an exhilarating combination of musical spirit. Scary has a modern feel that doesn’t forget the past; pure pop craftsmanship spiked with post-punk subversion. The songs have an infectious drive and punch, combining intricate and engaging melodies with tight complex harmonies. The music is coupled with tense, obsessive, sometimes blackly humorous lyrics chronicling ambition, weakness and phobia. Scary plays conceptually elegant, viscerally exciting rock with roots in glam, power pop, and heavy metal. Written by singer John Cross and instrumentalist Spook, these songs have the kind of structural integrity most modern bands have abandoned. That is: there are at least three chords in each song, glorious hooks, and superbly realized guitar lines.

Music Style All styles filtered through Scary

Musical Influences Anything and Everything

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Artist History “2 discs. 2 years in the making. Just 2 of us... 2 long, some will say. 2 much. 2 many. The world and the way we see it. A storyline, if you follow. Trust us, all those voices are not in your head, although they should be...” Page 1 of the Grafliminal booklet. Subfitti Grafliminal is the new 2-CD concept album from the band Scary Rides Home. A culmination of years of preparation and work, the album is an original idea conceived, written, performed, produced, recorded, mixed, designed and manufactured independently by The Spook and John Cross, the two members of the band. The storyline follows our hero and everyman Harrison on his quest for the beautiful Cynthia, who embodies everything that we could want or need from life, or so society tells us... Musically the album runs the gamut from the two-track acoustic simplicity of I Stand all the way to the 22-layered vocal shimmer of Fanatic Reason, with many other permutations in between. Speed, Techno, Experimental, Rock, Folk and many other “styles” inform the songs, funneled through the Scary Rides Home prism. Interspersed throughout the album are the kind of subliminal voices one hears in one’s own head, or is it masked messages of the media? Or the government? Or...?

Group Members John Cross: Voices, Instrument The Spook: Instruments, Voice

Instruments All manner - acoustic, electric and electronic

Albums Subfitti Grafliminal (2-CD Concept Album)

Press Reviews "Scary Rides plays conceptually elegant, viscerally exciting rock with roots in glam, power-pop, and heavy metal. Songs built like Dodge Vipers -- with sleek, seductive lines, and enough power to yank a stump out of the ground. These songs have the kind of structural integrity most modern bands have abandoned...glorious hooks and superbly realized guitar lines. Cross sings in a mellow tenor that tracks unerringly from warmly romantic to a desperate rasp. Talk about renaissance bands, Cross did the entire layout, art and production himself, and even this makes most big studio efforts look amateurish." -- Mike Baron, Nexus Newsletter "Instrumentally fascinating and holding influences all the way from near prog to gentle acoustic, they take you on a sonic journey you will not soon forget. Full-blown (almost orchestral rock) sound meshed with vocals that are often insightful.... What a grand adventure!" -- Dick Metcalf, Improvijazzation Nation "This epic, two-disc concept album from Scary Rides Home comes off like the soundtrack to a David Lynch or Wim Wenders film that hasn't been made yet, but ought to be. The music is lovely, sometimes making you think about things -- plus you feel cool when you listen to it." -- Katie Glick, UCLA Campus Circle

Location Van Nuys, CA - USA

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