PORT HALCYON
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Will "The Thrill" Viharo
Creepy Cool
PortHalcyon.com

   This unique New Jersey duo deftly blends classic surf reverbs, modern rock vocals, cult movie soundtrack influences, art-punk angst and space age electronica into one potent pipe bomb of hallucinogenic sounds. The ten tracks of Creepy Cool made this listener feel as if I was happily stoned while witnessing an alien invasion of a beach party...in slow motion.

   The contemporary singing style of Danielle Kimak Stauss (also known for the band Afterglow) offsets the "retro" factor, but also provides an original combination (with inventive and well-informed instrumentalist Stephen Masucci) of timeless and timely ingredients.

   I've never heard anyone quite like them—maybe Portishead without the Prozac comes the closest—at least not since the heyday of New Wave experimental time-tripping. And if this is your first encounter of the creepy, cool kind, neither have you.

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