“What am I to build, if my hands are broken, if I’m not the chosen one?” sings Steven McKellar of Civil Twilight on “Story of An Immigrant”, over a lush, dynamic beat that evokes the sounds of his native South Africa while steeped in the band’s everevolving present. The foursome (Steven, his brother and guitarist Andrew, drummer Richard Wouters and Kevin Dailey on keys and guitar) are living proof of what happens when you stop worrying about being the chosen one and make music built on both the roots that grew you and the love that keeps you thriving every day. Civil Twilight’s songs embrace every corner of human emotion, balancing delicate, poetic lyrics with sweeping arrangements that touch all the senses: a phrase to make you think; a rolling drumbeat you can feel in your bones; a guitar vamp as illustrative as a picture; a shimmer of keys whose light can nearly be seen and heard. Produced by Ben H. Allen (Gnarls Barkley, Bombay Bicycle Club, Cut Copy), their third record on Wind-Up is built on this vibrancy, on the permanent dust of a Cape Town youth; on the connection that unites them all as brothers beyond blood and on their new home in America where they pull from the innate, thriving musicianship of Nashville, where they live. When you listen to Civil Twilight, from their self-titled debut, to 2012’s widely lauded Holy Weather to now, it’s easy to understand why the band has topped five million YouTube views and reached historic success with film and television syncs – because it’s music you can’t shake, that translates experience into moments and creates melodies that become imbedded deep under the skin. We’re all immigrants, in some way, and Civil Twilight’s singing our national anthem.

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The Grey Disorder is a Canadian project based out of Toronto.  Founded by Lance Pilon, its sole member and former bass player for Riddle Me This (1989-1998) with gigs at EDGEFEST Alternative Music Festival and a track on the EDGE102.1FM New Rock Search Music CD in 1996.  The Grey Disorder is one man’s voice through lyric and sound, inspired by eighties bands like Depeche Mode, Dead or Alive and Howard Jones – but with a modern sound and story.  

With the debut album “Left Behind” released 11|11|11, listeners take themselves on a dark journey of sound and texture with songs that make you think differently.  The album depicts one man’s view on modern life, derived from exposure to big city living – a place surrounded by concrete and pavement – lifeless and without expression.  The project is born from a personal bout of depression – the band name “The Grey Disorder” describes a past-tense view of a world lacking colour and life.  

Title track “Left Behind” is a coming of age confession of a relationship struggle which gave the creator the courage to finally release the debut album, a realization that life needed to move forward, the album being the outlet for permission to let go and move on.  Overall, the debut album is an eclectic mix of electronic translations of discovery and confession, intrigue and mystery, darkness and hope for the future.
Since it’s debut release, The Grey Disorder has been in studio writing and working on the second album due to release in Fall 2013.  Bred by a new life and inspired by letting go of the past, this new album will combine a similar feel as the first, but with a new set of challenges surrounding relationships, realities of life and sounds of raw emotion.  With all tracks on the album “Left Behind”, and the upcoming 2nd album, take a trip with its creator into the deep aspects of human behaviour and social expectations – you just might find yourself relating with the story and find compassion in the struggles we all face in today’s modern and complex world.

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