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Biography: God Lives Underwater Biography
Label: A&M Records Jeff Turzo and David Reilly both grew up in small-town Pennsylvania, experimenting with computers and keyboards until one night in 1993, they decided to form a band around an industrial/techno song they had recorded for a party. The duo recorded four additional songs, and got an audition with Rick Rubin, president of American Recordings. Rubin liked what he heard, and signed Turzo and Reilly to his Onion subsidiary. They recorded a self-titled EP in 1995, then added guitarist Andrew McGee and drummer Adam Kary for live shows. God Lives Underwater's debut album, Empty, was released later that year, followed in 1998 by Life in the So-Called Space Age. ~ John Bush, All Music GuideContributed by: John Bush
Contributor organisation: AMG.com
Biography: Launch: God Lives Underwater Bio
BIOGRAPHY Bedroom studio boffins extraordinaire Jeff Turzo and David Reilly are the duo behind the pseudo-industrial electrorock of God Lives Underwater. After playing in various teenage bands in their hometown of Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania, Turzo and Reilly joined forces in 1994 on a homemade demo tape that got the attention of American Recordings head honcho Rick Rubin, who quickly signed them, whereupon they moved to L.A. Their 1995 debut album Empty , more rock than dance, garnered some notice, but American's financial problems soon put the band in limbo, from which they eventually exited by switching labels (to A&M). 1998's Life In The So-Called Space Age was a promising development of GLU's sound and further demonstrated their debt to folks like Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor and David Bowie. Turzo and Reilly also paid homage to another major influence, Depeche Mode, when they oversaw the Depeche tribute disc For The Masses (which included GLU's own version of "Fly On The Windscreen"). In all honesty, though, Turzo and Reilly have a long way to go before they rate even a patch on the three previously named artists. For all their skill at getting cool sounds on disc, they are still an undistinguished live act, prone to generic sludge-rock tendencies that eclipse the entrancing electronic ambience they're capable of concocting. They also suffer from a pronounced lack of vocal ability, and their songwriting could stand some improvement. But other than that, they're fine.Contributed by: Mac Randall
Contributor organisation: Launch.com
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