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Psych | Rock 
Oregon

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Debut Album Available on
​Vinyl, CD, download, streaming
​03/31/23

Bio

Morrison Graves is a psychedelic rock project from Oregon, USA. Their moody, fuzzed-out, sound draws influences from late 60’s fuzz and garage, surf, psychedelia, and indie rock. But they infuse these atavistic leanings with heavy saturated guitars and metalgaze drone reminiscent of The Black Angels and Dead Meadow. Meanwhile, vocalist Ryan Brown croons over the proceedings like a young Jim Morrison or early Mark Lanegan’s tuneful wail in Screaming Trees.

The group features multi-instrumentalist Gary Jimmerson (Small Sails, This is a Process of a Still Life), bassist Rob Bartleson (Slackjaw, Haywire Recording), and vocalist Ryan Brown.

The band's debut album “Division Rising” is a 12-track concept album about gentrification, homelessness, displacement, and socio-economic gaps — issues that currently plague Portland and many other cities across the world. Made during the height of the pandemic, these 3 friends churned out a well-recorded and focused debut. With songs about falling out of love with a city on fire, being lost to the seams of space, and corporate greed, this psych-surf landscape has drawn comparisons to The Doors, The Black Angels, Queens of the Stone Age, and dark spaghetti western music. 
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Division Rising will be available on LP, CD, digital, and streaming services on March 31, 2023.
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Press

Doom Charts: #2 on their December 2022 List
"If you love Jim Morrison and his vocals with The Doors, then you will enjoy Morrison Graves' debut..." 
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Doom Charts: #50 on their Top 100 Albums of 2022
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The Third Eye: Review
"...a solid album that pulls in influences from surf, The Doors, psych, indie rock, and much more."
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​Weirdo Shrine: Review + Interview
​"On their debut Division Rising they perfectly channel early dark post punk like Echo and the Bunnymen, modern psychedelic rock like The Black Angels, and early psychedelica like The Doors."
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