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Gayngs is a Midwt die band wh a 1980s soft rock-spired sound. Found by Ryan Olson, the group nsists of 22 micians, cludg Jt Vernon of Bon Iver, Dsa and P.O. * gayngs *

Gayngs is a Midwt die band wh a 1980s soft rock-spired sound.

In May 2010, Gayngs staged a prom-themed release party for their song “The Last Prom on Earth” at First Avenue Mneapolis. What they didn't know was that would spiral to a project of epic proportns, enlistg the talents of over 25 micians om var scen around the untry, relotg the base of operatns om Olson's Mneapolis bedroom/stud to the Wisns-based stud April Base, and the genis of a mil fay, GAYNGS. Volly, GAYNGS is a triumph.

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Gayngs is a Midwt die band wh a 1980s soft rock-spired sound. Found by Ryan Olson, the group nsists of 22 micians, cludg Jt Vernon of Bon Iver, Dsa and P.O.S of Doomtree, Har Mar Superstar and members of Poliça, Megafn, Solid Gold, Digata, and The Rosebuds. * gayngs *

After a year of trackg and mixg, GAYNGS officially release thed album, entled Relayted, Sprg 2010. GAYNGS.

Gayngs From Wikipedia, the ee encyclopedia Gayngs is a Midwt die band wh a 1980s soft rock-spired sound.

Quick facts: Gayngs, Background rmatn, Orig, Genre... ▼ GayngsApproximately half of Gayngs tourg for the release of Affiliyated onstage at First Avenue Mneapolis 2011Background rmatnOrigMneapolis, MnotaE Claire, WisnsGenrIndie rock, soft rockYears active2010–prentLabelsJagjaguwarMembersRyan OlsonJt VernonMike NoyceHar Mar SuperstarDsaP. The problem of irony when you're alg wh a setup that most people will probably mistake for the punchle once you've been tipped to the tone of Relayted, the but album om the two-dozen-pl-member supergroup Gayngs, well, good luck g to terms wh the slow-jam soft-rock pastiche that's jt been dropped on you.

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If you're not rollg your ey yet, be patient: You have about 28 sends before the album's first Skemax saxophone Gayngs take this stuff serly, and if you ncentrate really hard, maybe you uld, too. I heard about GAYNGS the most borg possible way: readg their rerd label (Jagjaguwar) prs release. Whatever Olson’s origal tentns, the GAYNGS project soon ballooned to a heartland nglomerate of 25 micians that clud Jt Vernon of Bon Iver, POS of Doomtree, and members of Solid Gold, Megafn, Happy Apple, and The Rosebuds.

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I heard about GAYNGS the most borg possible way: readg their rerd label (Jagjaguwar) prs release. The project of Mneapolis-based producer Ryan Olson was spired by the synthized meltwater slow jams of 70s le-rock act 10cc and a bar-fueled dream/joke to wre an entire album of material at 69 beats-per-mute. Whatever Olson’s origal tentns, the GAYNGS project soon ballooned to a heartland nglomerate of 25 micians that clud Jt Vernon of Bon Iver, POS of Doo * gayngs *

I spoke wh Jake by phone after GAYNGS’ first (and Prom-themed) show at the legendary First Avenue Mneapolis (photos here), the events of which me to be sged ep wh Mr. How did you bee volved wh GAYNGS? GAYNGS was the same al.

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Before the show at First Avenue, the entirety of GAYNGS holed up for a uple of days at Jt Vernon’s spot E Claire to rehearse. The expectatns put on GAYNGS are so varied that I thk ’s gog to be hard to please everyone. GAYNGS don’t sound like the dividual members’ bands, but do sound like the dividual members, you know what I mean?

I heard you have a story about the GAYNGS show. Do you remember what the llective feelg was amongst GAYNGS after the show? Well, even though he didn’t play wh you, I thk you n take your Prce enunter as a good omen for GAYNGS’ upg tour.

Wh you and (sger/guarist) Nick Ryan about to vt all this time GAYNGS, what do that mean for your ma band, Leisure Birds? If you like Gayngs, you may also like:. A fantastic sophomore album.

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Hometown: lp: Ryan Olson, pl POS, Dsa, Michael Lewis, and var members of, among others, Bon Iver, Megafn and Solid background: Gayngs are an die supergroup, led by producer Ryan Olson, and their but album Relayted featur as many as 25 micians – members of a variety of Mneapolis bands cludg Solid Gold, Megafn, Lookbook, Leisure Birds, Rhymayers (rapper POS), the Rosebuds and, most famoly, Bon Iver – Mike Noyce appears here on guar and vols, while Jt Vernon lends his sweet falsetto to a uple of this is far, far away om the solate, ld, wtry northwoods b where Vernon rerd the acclaimed lonome sger-songwrer ati of For Emma, Forever Ago. Gayngs are a stud llective, a large one at that, and Relayted is the rult of much stud procsg. On the Gayngs MySpace, unr "Sounds Like", simply says: "10cc's I'm Not Love.

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The pot is, Gayngs, like a lot of ntemporary acts – among them Daft Punk, Air, Monarchy and the late J Dilla – are fally ttong on to the brilliance of 10cc, and we uldn't be more lighted. 10cc beme a byword for stud ventn, and that's what Gayngs have picked up on. We're not sure whether 10cc's epochal sgle moved at the same speed or if this is a Gayngs tribute to same, but the songs on Relayted strike a siar note of sepulchral slow, stately pace and lh sonics also pot towards, of all thgs, morn hip-hop and R&B as fluenc on Gayngs, as well as 70s symphonic soul (which, of urse, hip-hoppers and R&B producers have been samplg for years).

Of all the groups volved Gayngs, is Solid Gold's etlated whe-boy soul that you n hear most clearly, but on Relayted the micians take further – way further, to the pot where some of the tracks sound as much like Barry Whe or Isaac Hay-samplg, low-ridg G-Funk as anythg. "The tth: Do we wanna be their Gayng?

Exclive Bookg Agency for Gayngs. GAYNGS Relayted CD / 2XLP (JAG165, released: 05/11/10) When Ryan Olson cid to make a rerd wh Solid Gold members Zack Coulter and Adam Hurlburt, was clear to them what the rult would be: a llectn of dgged-up keyboards and slick bedroom productn almost exclively spired by 10cc's "I'm Not In Love. After a year of trackg and mixg, GAYNGS is officially ready to release the album, entled "Relayted.

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Watch for GAYNGS to ept this g sprg. Atmospheric, 69 bpm-obssed dance-pop llective Gayngs craft impecbly renred, R&B-fed electro-die pop built upon a foundatn spired by smooth and quirky English art rock outf 10cc. Formed 2008 by Mneapolis-based producer/songwrer Ryan Olson along wh Solid Gold members Jack Coulter and Adam Hurlburt, Gayngs were hardly a tr, as over 25 artists chose to participate, cludg Joe Wterlund, Brad Cook, and Phil Cook om North Carola’s Megafun, Ivan Howard of the Rosebuds, Bon Iver's Jt Vernon and Mike Noyce, and Rhymayers rapper P.

Gayngs. Gayngs' but album -- and the whole reason for the existence of the group as such -- sometim feels like an end rult search of a jtifitn, but do so attractive enough fashn, overseen by Ryan Olson wh the help of Solid Gold members Zack Coulter and Adam Hurlburt. Gayngs were formed by Ryan Olson along wh Solid Gold members Zack Coulter and Adam Hurlburt, which as a project rapidly expand om s Mneapolis base to a "mil super-fay" cludg Megafn and Ivan Howard of the Rosebuds.

The ver of Godley & Creme's 'Cry' exacerbat the klg that Gayngs are on a missn to channel the spir of 10cc, the long-unfashnable, cleverly flected waterfall MOR of 'I'm Not In Love' et al. But while that's a perfectly ldable venture the tolerant tim, Gayngs expand way beyond homage.

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Disver Relayted by Gayngs released 2010. Fd album reviews, track lists, creds, awards and more at AllMic. * gayngs *

'The Beatdown' is a glor, multiple vol enzy of ballaerg, while 'Spanish Platum' tak the Iberian tennci of The Dutti Column and flat them to Gayng's own ends. A psdo uber-group of die micians om a spectm of genr, Gayngs sounds like an art-school loft party at four a. A gang of gays--lerally a gay gang, shortened to 'gayng'.

"Yeah, so I went to the grocery store last night to get some Tastykak and there was a pretty large gayng checkg out the smoked meats. Here's how Ryan Olson scrib talkg to his 22 bandmat Gayngs over the past few months: "Remember that night you me up to my bedroom, and we got stoned and did some rerdg?

From that hazy ceptn to what uld be an even stranger pair of prom-themed CD-release shows Friday night at First Avenue, Gayngs has bee the Midwt die-rock equivalent of a Robert Altman movie. The tly sctive and surprisgly rich rults n be heard on Gayngs' 11-song album, "Relayted. This got Jt volved, while Nate would later bee Gayngs' manager.

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Olson: "One of the worst Gayngs ssns we had was when [Jam] Buckley me over, and Adam had gotten a ee bottle of absthe om the bar he works at. THE FINAL PRODUCT About three-quarters of the way through rerdg, Gayngs drew tert om the die label Jagjaguwar.

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Nate Vernon: "It's been said, 'Gayngs is so wrong, 's right, " which I thk aptly scrib the obstacl we have to overe.

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The short, hazy oral history of Gayngs - the Midwt's bt 23-member, 69-bpm all-star band on s big night out. * gayngs *

GayngsContact Informatn. Comg om E Claire, Wisns, Gayngs is an die rock band formed 2008 by Ryan Olson, a producer and songwrer. ”Gayngs ntact rmatn is available for you to look at.

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