Volumen 1 :: Shane Hickey
Volumen 2 :: Doug Smith
Volumen^2 :: Bryan Hickey
bKCAWCK :: Chris Bacon
Volumen Beta :: Bob Marshall


 
Doug Smith Volumen 2
Doug Smith

If Shane is the high school Physics Club treasurer of VOLUMEN, Doug is the affable, popular guy who toes the fine line between band dork and senior class president. Cheerleaders leak the info that they want him to ask them out, but he�s always genuinely nice to the less popular girls and boys, too. In addition to writing most of what doesn�t get written by his longtime friend and musical partner, Shane (in the platonic sense, that is�at least we THINK so), Doug�s signature wikkid lyxx and fine tenor are the yin to Shane�s yang, the butter to Shane�s muffin, the hot dog in Shane�s....well, anyway, the other half of the songwriting equation. Additionally, Doug is a beacon of calm and tranquility in his other bandmates� roiling sea of adolescent squirreliness, and a fine cook to boot. The last male bonding I did with Doug was undertaken when we spent two days in the Montana wilderness picking morel mushrooms. Oh, the magic he worked with those little morsels...


 
 
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Vanity Project 04/03/2006
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Title: Science Faction Review
Author: Skif

Volumen - Science Faction (Wantage)
Swirling keys all rough abrasive guitars to kick at the base of the Maypole i.e. this LP is as much part of festivity as it is reacting to it. It is jerky, percussive and has a grit and brawn that slightly tips the balance over the nerdish attention to invention that runs throughout the hour. Prog and psyche have been suckled to produce this expansive, menacing LP that has echoes of Mars Volta and Oneida. They also play up an electro element nicely on �Dune?

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