Music:
Member Since: 29/05/2005
Band Members: Boy with guitar, violin, piano, cheap keyboard, 4-track recorder and college studio, handclaps, squeaky, timid voice, and books of old poems from which to lift lyrics, along with the kid down the hall who was kind enough to play drums, and various friends and acquaintances dragged along to play things like bass, cello, trumpet and flute.
Influences: The Velvet Underground, the Kinks, the Buzzcocks, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Marlowe, JK Huysmans, Percy Bysshe Shelley, the Magnetic Fields, the Mountain Goats, Joy Division, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Spacemen 3, Slowdive, Current 93, Low, Bedhead, Knife in the Water, PJ Harvey, Richard Thompson, Einsturzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Silly Wizard, Leonard Cohen, The Pixies, Belle and Sebastian, Johnny Cash, Steve Reich, Radiohead, Alban Berg, Josquin Des Pres, Neutral Milk Hotel, Townes Van Zandt, The Decemberists, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Jacques Brel, Serge Gainsbourg, Frederic Chopin, Bela Bartok, The Dirty Three, Gregory the Great, Felix Mendelssohn, JS Bach, David Lynch, the Flemish Primitives, the First Surrealist Manifesto
Sounds Like: A half-assed art-school style project, poorly recorded with substandard musicianship.
Type of Label: Major