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Review: Grant Ulysses - Twin Visions EP

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Ulysses S. Grant? He was the 18th president of the United States, running the country from 1869-1877. Grant Ulysses? Well, that’s the solo project written, recorded and produced in the bedroom of Orillia teenager Cole Mendez.

Grant Ulysses has two music videos: “Wealth” and my personal favourite “Selfish”. The tracks aren’t exactly happy – actually, they’re rather depressing – but they are two of his most alternative, catchy and upbeat songs.

The Twin Visions EP that I’m reviewing is, as Mendez himself puts it, “a more cohesive and fleshed out musical project”. The EP is unlike anything he’s previously released and I find it to be more indie and dream pop, with a haunting aspect that emanates throughout each of the four tracks. All songs sound hopeless and carry with them lonely lyrical content and amazing guitar tones to accompany the theme seen throughout.

Every song on Twin Visions has a catchy and quirky guitar intro to it – all except for “Apathy”. In this case, it has a groovy-ass bass intro. The guitar intros remind me of a Peter Sagar from Homeshake-like feel to them and it’s safe to say I dig it. The instruments, in particular the guitar and bass, are stimulating and the vocals on the EP are really lo-fi and daunting.

Download: Apathy

3.8/5

By Lukas Foote