A Lurid Adventure | Good Graeff Live Review | Will’s Pub July 16, 2015

by • July 19, 2015

Lead singer Brooke of Good Graeff (pronounced ‘grayf’) sounds like M.I.A. if the latter had grown up in Sarasota rather than Sri Lanka. Clearly influenced by the sounds of home, but most certainly a worldly woman. Good Graeff’s backstory reads like it was dreamt by an overly romantic music writer.

Twin sisters, Brooke and Brit, who started playing music by busking for tourists in Sarasota, FL. Brooke moves to Toronto to study foley arts, Brit stays in Florida and studies international business. Six years go by. Brit moves to Vietnam and then recruits Brooke to join. The two teach English and give motorcycle tours, all the while rekindling their musical collaboration. After positive feedback in Vietnam, they move home and start a band.

Consequently, they sound like well-travelled musicians who live rich lives. Lead singer Brooke’s vocals and guitar are fierce and in your face. She attacks songs with passionate, controlled abandon. Her playing satisfies the latent teenage angst that adults so infrequently have an appropriate outlet to express, while her vocals tap into the mature and sultry needs of grown folks.

Good Graeff Live Review at Will's Pub

The people singing the loudest, right next to the stage, were bearded men in the late twenties and thirties. Overall, the crowd reflected the eclectic nature of the music. Men roughly equaled women in number. Kids barely 21 mingled with dudes pushing forty. Each enjoying a tight band that is more than two talented sisters.

Good Graeff’s performance certainly features the girls. Brit masterfully plays the cello and her playing is rightfully featured in their brand of indie pop, both live and on record. Their sound wraps around Brit’s playing, even while Brooke is viciously assaulting her guitar. Still, the rest of the four piece band (drums and bass) hold their own as integral members of the collective.

We are all going on a lurid adventure and you are all gonna get laid,”

Brooke promised as Good Graeff’s set was coming to a close around midnight. It would not be hard to believe that the prophecy came true given the energy of the room.

There was a sexual energy to the entire performance, not in an overtly seductive way, but in the sense that the band left it all on the stage. One particularly thrilling song ended with the band exhaling a sigh as if recovering from remarkably intense love-making.

Good Graeff at Will's Pub

“You make me never bored,” Brooke sings during a love song. The lyric is directed at a lover, but it could just as easily have been meant for the room at Will’s.

If only boring people get bored, then Will’s was full of interesting folk.

Good Graeff just released their first EP. It’s titled Good Job Go. Catch them on tour and pick up a copy of the new record.

Good Graeff Live Review by Jason Earle.

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