Graves is in fact the pen name for songwriter Greg Olin. With "Yes Yes Okay Okay," he guides a cadre of sympathetic musicians (members of Norfolk and Western, Desert City Soundtrack, and Little Wings) on a second outing to a distinctly natural, sweetly exhilarating place. Whereas 2003's "Love Love Love" found songs ricocheting off each other within the confines of an album -- overflowing as they were with texture, mood, lackadaisical melody, and the occasional outburst -- "Yes Yes Okay Okay" dispenses with    [ read more ]

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Love, Love, Love is the debut release from The Graves. This family of friends, lovers and friends of lover's lovers join together to see the sometimes simple folk songs of Greg Olin (formerly of York Roberts fame) transformed into an even more colorful reflection of their original selves. In doing so, The Graves have created an intimate and textural soundscape that sways in gentle, melodic campfire baroque. The songs of Greg Olin are simple, clever and classic, reckoning to such diverse influences as t   [ read more ]

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Love, Love, Love is the debut release from The Graves. This family of friends, lovers and friends of lover's lovers join together to see the sometimes simple folk songs of Greg Olin (formerly of York Roberts fame) transformed into an even more colorful reflection of their original selves. In doing so, The Graves have created an intimate and textural soundscape that sways in gentle, melodic campfire baroque. The songs of Greg Olin are simple, clever and classic, reckoning to such diverse influences as t   [ read more ]

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On his third album, Graves singer/songwriter Greg Olin totally reinvents himself. Where the previous albums had been largely solo bedroom pop albums, there is an expansiveness to To Sur w/ Love. That's Sur as in Big Sur, the almost mythical California beach town, and the album is filled with gentle evocations of '60s sunshine pop and '70s California singer/songwriter rock all over the album. Not that things don't get quirky, as is Olin's wont: "Deepspace Team" is anchored by a    [ read more ]

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The fourth album by Portland, OR's Graves -- as ever, singer/songwriter Greg Olin and various friends, including members of his Hush Records labelmates Norfolk & Western and fellow Pacific Northwest singer/songwriter Nate Ashley -- continues the fleshing out of Olin's original D.I.Y. bedroom pop sound that began on 2005's To Sur w/ Love. Cory Gray's keyboards and trumpet are hugely important to the sound of Easy Not Easy, giving the album an intimate feel that's very close to t   [ read more ]

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Continuing the string of winners that started with 2005's To Sur w/ Love, Graves leader Greg Olin maintains his role as the single mellowest dude in all of Portland, OR. It's not that put-on, hippy-dippy, Jack Johnson barefoot in the coffee house kind of mellow, either: despite the album title, Olin approaches his arrangements and performances like he's on the verge of drifting off into a nice mid-afternoon doze. Witness the second track, "Kampu Blues," which consists entirely of a couple    [ read more ]

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