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Boasting influences rooted in guitar-centered indie rock and fraught with freak/folk and the effects-laden experimental rock of someone like a Grizzly Bear, Gilbert's frequent live shows range from solo affairs laden with all manner of effects and loops to lively, kitchen-sink full band blowouts.
Gilbert released his first EP, Oh No Oh Now I Know in November of '05. He then released his debut full-length, The Artist and the Scientist, in September of '06. Marrying the catchy with the cacophonous, Gilbert, like the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne (well, not just like Wayne Coyne, but you get the picture) takes the whole "the recording studio is my instrument" ideal to heart, laying down some mean glockenspiel and piano/synthwork along with a healthy roil of guitar/bass/drum bottom end. Frankly, given a blind listen (a weird concept, mind you) it sounds like the work of someone at least 10 years older. (Gilbert's in his early to mid 20s. If I'm not mistaken -- homey ain't on Wikipedia yet.)
Some folk, that nugget in mind, have compared young Gilbert to Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes. I'm not ready to anoint him the New Dylan just yet (a ridiculous reference given Oberst that the songwriter ably tackles on his new EP Four Winds), but rest assured that this Dylan's the real deal nonetheless. What's in a name? A lot, it seems.
– Timothy C. Davis
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