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Silver Gorilla
Silver Gorilla is an album by the American band the Gravel Pit, released in 1999.[2][3] It was nominated for three Boston Music Awards.[4] The band supported the album with a North American tour.[5] ProductionThe album was produced by Mike Denneen.[6] Among the album's guest musicians are Jen Trynin, Kay Hanley, and John Linnell.[7][8] Silver Gorilla includes a three-song suite, tracks 10–12, dubbed "An American Trilogy".[9] Many of the album's songs had been in the band's live set for years.[10] Critical reception
Entertainment Weekly praised the "power and prowess of this Boston quartet, whose inordinately catchy Farfisa-streaked pop is instantly familiar yet, in this age of alternanonymous posing, remarkably daring."[12] The Austin Chronicle thought that "the Pit explodes with the furor of Elvis Costello's first few sneering albums and brims with the pure pop perfection of the rest."[7] The Boston Herald called the album "hard-edged pop that's aggressively tuneful."[13] The New Yorker deemed the album "highly inventive organ-fuelled pop," and noted the "clever lyrics, catchy melodies, and arrangements that are more complex than you'd expect."[14] Trouser Press concluded that, "for all of the pushing of musical boundaries, Silver Gorilla contains the Pit’s most accessible straight-ahead pop song, 'Favorite'... Sailing along on a bouncy organ groove, it became a genuine hit in Boston."[15] The Cleveland Scene opined that the band provides "melodic yet rough-edged tunes that falter only occasionally, when the song gets lost in repetitive chord changes."[16] AllMusic wrote that "this Boston foursome's loud pop-punk recalls the early days of Cheap Trick, when loud (not just fuzzy, but loud) guitars could exist in catchy pop songs."[11] Track listing
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