Name: Dirty Sexy Knights in Paris
Brand: Atlantic
SKU: 316211
Availability: OutOfStock
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)

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Performer Notes

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Audiovent: Jason Boyd (vocals); Benjamin Einziger (guitar, piano, background vocals); Paul Fried (bass, background vocals); Jamin Wilcox (drums, background vocals).
Recorded at Full Kilt Studio, North Hollywood, California and Larabee East, Los Angeles, California.
Personnel: Benjamin Einziger (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, background vocals); Jamin Wilcox (vocals, drums, background vocals); Jason Boyd (vocals); Jamie Muhoberac, Vincent Jones (keyboards); Paul Fried (background vocals).
Audio Mixers: Chris Lord-Alge; Gavin MacKillop.
Recording information: Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA; Full Kilt Studio, North Hollywood, CA; Larrabee East, New York, NY.
Photographer: Chapman Baehler.
Audiovent may boast bloodlines to Incubus (singer Jason is the brother of the latter's frontman Brandon Boyd, while guitarist Ben's older sib is Incubus fretman Mike Einziger), but a complex and melodic approach towards music are the only similarities between the two bands. Throughout their impressive debut DIRTY SEXY KNIGHTS IN PARIS, Audiovent avoids merely cranking up the distortion and instead keeps a steady hand on producing well-crafted hard rock songs. Between drawing from early-'90s grunge influences and working with Goo Goo Dolls producer Gavin McKillop, this California quartet does a fine job of appropriating the loud-soft-loud method of composition; see the sitar-tinged "Rain" and the hard-hitting "Beautiful Addiction," with its subtle, dream-pop guitar.
Able to play as loud and hard as any of their contemporaries, Audiovent truly shine on songs falling outside of the aggro-rock box. Most notable are the sweet pop of "Sweet Frustration" with its mostly acoustic sound, and "When I Drown," a piano-driven cut featuring Einziger and drummer Jamin Wilcox on vocals surrounded by light string arrangements. DIRTY SEXY KNIGHTS IN PARIS succeeds in presenting a different side of aggro-rock by a group that's more than Incubus' baby- brother band.

Professional Reviews

Q (11/02, p.97) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...A polished, controlled collection of anthemic choruses..."

Album: Dirty Sexy Knights in Paris
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Energy, The
2)	Looking Down
3)	I Can't Breathe
4)	Rain
5)	One Small Choice
6)	Sweet Frustration
7)	Stalker
8)	Gravity
9)	Underwater Silence
10)	Back and Forth
11)	Beautiful Addiction
12)	When I Drown

Album: Dirty Sexy Knights in Paris
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Energy, The
2)	Looking Down
3)	I Can't Breathe
4)	Rain
5)	One Small Choice
6)	Sweet Frustration
7)	Stalker
8)	Gravity
9)	Underwater Silence
10)	Back and Forth
11)	Beautiful Addiction
12)	When I Drown