Artist description Ambient influenced melodic guitar rock.

Music Style Ambient guitar rock

Musical Influences Spiritualized, Stereolab, The Blue Aeroplanes, Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3, My Bloody Valentine

Similar Artists The Dandy Warhols, The Velvet Underground, Spiritualized

Artist History To discover the roots of Sublingual, you have to look back to the summer of 1992. Fueled by the Toronto/Hamilton punk scene that was then spilling over into Niagara, four young musicians (Matthew Fogel, Frank Erhardt, Quinn McColgan and Craig Collins) started Souracid. They practiced everyday after work in Matthew's parent's garage covering the Sex Pistols in earnest. After a summer of rehearsals, they made their debut at St. Catharines' famous basement club, The Hideaway. With college and university starting, and two of the members heading to schools out of town, Souracid disbanded shortly after.Now, nearly nine years later, the songwriting team behind that little punk band that could have reunited to bring you Sublingual, the spiritual child of Souracid.Singer/songwriters Matthew Fogel, Frank Erhardt, Jeffrey Rosetto and Dan Jamieson collaborate to create ambient influenced guitar rock!

Group Members Frank Erhardt - Lead vocals, keyboards, TR505 programming, drums Matthew Fogel - vocals, guitars, midi programming, production Jeffrey Rosetto - lead guitars, vocals

Instruments circa 1930 Wurlitzer Rythm Companion, Roland TR-505 Rythm Composer, MIDI Yamaha keyboards, US made Peavey Predator, Peavey Classic 30, Fender Strat, various effects pedals and transistor practice amps, Vantage Artist Bass, Vantage Flying V copy.

Albums Sublingual, Wishful

Press Reviews October 2001 issue of The Freq, program guide for radio station CFBU Niagara. Sublingual: Our damn roof By: Mike English Photos by: Matt Lamers High atop a downtown Irish pub, a new sound drifts across the skyline. Sultry and sinister, it winds its way through the city streets, straining for an ear to find it. The cold, crisp winds of October sweep it up and out and away from the source. It is the sound of Sublingual. From the ashes of a high school punk band, Frank Erhardt and Matt Fogel have re-invented themselves. Together with Jeanette High, Jeffrey Rossetto and Mike Curran, they form a furtive five-piece. And they're still looking for more--a drummer and a bassist -- to flesh out their rhythm section. Not that their sound is lacking in any way. And Frank is a capable drummer, but as lead vocalist he doesn't want to be trapped behind some bulky kit as all drummers are, laughingly shrugging off allusions of Phil Collins. His brow furrows for a moment, and then relaxes as he somberly confesses that it really is hard to find good drummers these days--a trend that most artists will tell you has been on the rise steadily ever since the end of the '70s. Sublingual (meaning 'under the tongue') is in clever reference (and perhaps reverence?) to that defunct punk band -- Souracid. That was way back in the summer of '92, when Earhardt and Fogel teamed up with Quinn McColgan and Craig Collins to take advantage of the Toronto/Hamilton punk scene that was becoming popularized all around the golden horseshoe. High school gave way to colleges and university, and distance coupled with a nine-year separation spelled the band's doom. In the interim, that latest punk explosion came and went -- but nobody really noticed. When the pair re-emerged this year, they were sporting a new sound, but no band. As Frank explains, "We sort of did this all backwards. Did the music, and then found the band." That sound, for the uninitiated, is akin to a late night drive down an unlit road in a car with tinted windows. Muddy ambient guitar rock, with purposely slow but highly infectious, almost hypnotic vocals. And dreamy -- like that awkward moment when you wake in the middle of the night, clouded and unsure of exactly where you are, thirsty for a drink of water. "A lot of it is like'80s post punk influenced, really," says Frank (a closet Smiths fan) of Sublingual's direction. "There's a lot of bands out there these days pushing a similar sound--like Spiritualized. Slow driven, nice melodies--kind of how Radiohead's turning nowadays. They're slowing right down." Sounds like a sure thing. But then Radiohead has the luxury of having an already established fan base and years of commercial success behind them. They can do no wrong. Sublingual is still an unknown, taking a big risk by going against the norm. Of course, the best bands always do. Nearly everything this band does is unusual. For starters, nobody has heard them play live yet. Not unless they share the twilight rooftop world the band uses to practice on, anyway. "We kept our sound basically hidden for about a year until we had some songs done," confides Earhardt. "It wasn't hard to find anybody [after that]." Their music isn't written down anywhere either. It just comes to them during jam sessions. They take a sound and warp it and mold it and make it their own, barely pausing to wonder where it will take them. Any music reporter will tell you that there is a special pleasure reserved for those rare opportunities when they get to cover a band that is about to break. Once can almost smell the success at that moment. But what happens before that? With their recently released EP, Wishful, containing just five simple songs, and a handful more available only on the internet, Sublingual is hardly prolific. But the quality of raw talent stands up to the quantity of mediocrity, often admirably. And this band is smothered in it.

Additional Info Check out our other projects: Norfolk jacket, Drum Lab and V0X

Location St Catharines, Ontario - Canada

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