If these songs are any indication, Elevator is going up

Only one member of the band is old enough to have a beer, and three others look as if they just walked out of a casting call for "The Brady Bunch." But Great Glass Elevator dispenses sophisticated pop songs, marrying its merry melodies with unexpected choruses and bridges, none of which is wasted on the trifles of playground love.

"A lot of men turn / their hearts to ashes / while they suck the world dry / to please the masses," David Braun sings in "Drunk on Another Planet," the first song off the band's third EP, "Our Hands Turn Into Machines."

When I first saw the Orange County quintet in early 2006 playing to a typically giddy all-ages Tuesday night crowd at the Key Club, Braun and band mates Andrew Honore, Matt Mason, Barrett Slagle and Josh Stephens augmented their theatrical live show with videos and sundry antics. None of that was present, or necessary, when Great Glass Elevator played Tuesday night to a small crowd at the Troubadour. The songs were enough.

Signed to Atlantic last May, the quintet is currently touring and writing songs for its full-length.

Meanwhile, they are offering the "Our Hands Turn Into Machines" for free download (email address required). As the kids would say: Totally worth it.

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Comments

[Shanequa]

it is totally worth it!
great glass elevator is one of the few bands whose songs i never skip. all of their songs are enjoyable and just makes you want to scream and run in happiness!