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About Hard Grammer
Product Description "Hard Grammar" is the 2nd full length CD by Seattle based Graig Markel. The album explores the places your mind goes when it's late at night and you've spent too much time alone examining your problems. All of his songs are infused with a touch of soul and a crystalline honesty that leave you warm and a bit unsettled. In all his songs, Markel seems to be yearning for something, balancing bouts of emptiness and anger. Actually, Randy Newman meets D'Angelo isn't a bad way of thinking about most of Markel's music, which combines the confessional singer-songwriter approach and the slick processed soul tendencies of the '70s. Highlights on this album include "D'Azz", a sensual slow-burning shoo-be-doo-wop torch song, and "Live Without It" a rollicking pale-faced R&B number, plus 8 more. Review "An album unlike any other you've recently heard." -- The Stranger "Markel is a songwriter with a wealth of talent" -- Exclaim "Some of the sweetest pop vocalizing heard this year" -- Alternative Press These sexy tunes are the ultimate weapon in your next romantic conquest. The album your love life is waiting for. -- CMJ Kelso Jacks This is the sexiest record.I only hope Beck/TLC can hear it and that they're feeling inadequate. -- Magnet killer grip inside a velvet glove: Markel has the power to make us wonder about the man behind the sound. -- Pulse Paul D. Dickson About the Artist Graig Markel was the lead singer and founder of Seattle's New Sweet Breath. His solo work bears little resemblance to New Sweet Breath's high energy pop-punk, ranging instead from introspective stripped-down ballads to mature rockers. Markel, who also plays guitar for Tagging Satellites, first ventured out on his own in 1999 with his five-song "November/December" EP. Soon after, he released his first LP, "Verses on Venus", his first solo full length on Mag Wheel Records in the Fall of 99. "Hard Grammar" came out in Jan. 2001, and was met with rave reviews from such publications as CMJ, Magnet and more. Graig still resides I Seattle, and has since released a split CD with Orange Cake Mix, and the "Summer Fire" EP. Both are on Markels own Recovery Room Records. Expect a new record from Graig sometime in the Fall of 2002.
