"One of the reasons you look out the window at night when you're way up in the sky is the hope that you'll catch a glimpse of some kind of celestial object that will be unfamiliar, a new molecule in an ocean of old. You know what the aisle looks like: that's not what you want to see. This time, you catch that sensation of discovery. The propeller jams, the wings force a dip. The nose begins to dive. Fuel vapor in your face, your eyes water. You see it as it happens, but it seems stretched. This is slow motion crash." - Richard Bataille

If Slow Motion Crash is any indication, Atlanta is fertile soil indeed. Made from the building blocks of Brian Fisher (vocals, guitar), Ryan Holmes (guitar, vocals), Melissa Giorgio (bass), Joshua Broughton (keys, vocals), and the recently added Jason Curtis (drums), SMC has combined serious song crafting sensibility with a quirky, eccentric indie feel. The band has created a bottom-heavy sound, featuring a precise layering of melodic and discordant guitar riffs punctuated by semi-electronic landscapes and dance-laden drums.

Slow Motion Crash's self-titled record has been released to rave reviews in the cloistered Georgia music scene by publications including Georgia Music Magazine, Performer, and Creative Loafing. With its thought-provoking lyrics that grab and tease and meandering guitars that push and pull, the record has a sexy, claustrophobic sound that's somehow simultaneously kinetic and languid. Combining elating highs and abysmal lows, the band has created a piece that inspires and jars from start to finish.

Slow Motion Crash's live show is as impressive as their studio work. Merging a blood-pumping, energetic performance with such accessible songwriting has garnered the band a wide, multi-demographic following. Drawing as much from the dynamic alternative music audience as from the ultra-hip indie rock scene as from the depths of the goth horde, SMC's pounding, stuttering rhythms have forcefully driven and sweetly persuaded star-eared concert goers from the Southeast to Midwestern US.
 

"(Slow Motion Crash) emerges with a beguiling flourish from the scattered wreckage of the band Creve Coeur, careening through nine scratchy, ominous visions. Their spiky guitars and throbbing basslines portend an irresistibly dour joy deficit that steers clear of goth posturing and heads straight to the hallowed stage of Atlanta's long-defunct 688 Club. Don't remember those days? Listen to this and you'll be transported there immediately."   [ Click for full article.] "(The members of) Atlanta's Slow Motion Crash have logged some serious time in the shadowy corners of this music, incorporating the anxious atmospherics into a sound that invites comparisons to other bands without slavishly imitating any of them. The spiky keyboard riff that laces through "5th and Incident," the insistent drums and dissonant guitar clash of "Trail of Tears," the quirky push and pull of "Mirrors & Conflict" -- these moments nod to the joys of your older brother's crates of old Love and Rockets and Fugazi records while creating a melancholic tension that rings just as true in the here and now. "   [ Click for full article.] "(Slow Motion Crash) have channeled their love for ‘80s new wave/goth into a new hybrid that sounds totally relevant in 2007. These songs have catchy, sing-along choruses, and the band members are not afraid to whip out a synthesizer to get their point across, and good for them. Sounds that were at one time considered passe are now new again — and actually refreshing...tracks that make up this release are grandiose, proud songs that are performed with conviction and no sense of self-importance." "Release of the week: Slow Motion Crash took an epistemology of dance-rock and wrote a dissertation. On their debut, self-titled album they combined old songs I've loved with some great new material... there is something special and unique here that has given me much enjoyment." "These local boys and girls sure do play some gothically ethereal (or ethereally gothic?) shit. Joy Division and Interpol comparisons are inevitable. Thankfully, they do put their heart into it, resulting in some ass-shaking jams and dark lyrics that actually sound convincing." "Back to the shade again, just in time to catch Slow Motion Crash...no album, but my, oh my could they play...Another jaw dropping moment. Come north young lads, come north; I have just the venue in mind." "Stark and powerful, the band sometimes recalls Sonic Youth and Fugazi's quieter moments, all the while adding their own energy to create a unique and powerful sound." Downloadable EPK: