Member Since: 9/16/2004
Band Website: deathtoanders.com
Band Members:
Influences: Sonic Youth, Elliott Smith, Pavement, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Decemberists, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Grandaddy, Johnny Cash, Blitzen Trapper, Tapes N Tapes, Sigur Ros, Neutral Milk Hotel, Beck, One Trick Pony, the Happy Hollows, Guided by Voices, Nirvana, The Transmissions, Steven Malkmus, Built to Spill, Animal Collective, Die Rockers Die, The Soft Hands, Todd McLaughlin, Tom Waits, the Henry Clay People, Rademacher, Radars to the Sky, The Slow Demise, Blonde Redhead
Sounds Like: RECENT REVIEWS
Like Pavement, [Death to Anders] is consciously aware of their sound, steering and shaping it instead of letting it control them. They know when to kick in the distortion and scream unintelligently, and when to harmonize over a pretty shuffle. Like the Pixies, their song structures are unorthodox but do not alienate, and can seamlessly and radically alter their
tempo and volume while weaving hypnotic melodies into a solid rhythmic backbone.
-Delusions of Adequacy Full Review Here
Death to Anders deftly avoids genre classification. A T1000 of a rock act, they expertly shifted gears and changed moods without betraying the heart of their sound. I'm already prepared to call "Great Plains States" the first great song of 2008.
-Classical Geek Theatre Full Review Here
The four members of Death to Anders' intelligent utilization of a satirically invigorating story-led lyrical delivery provides for an entertaining scope into the modernistic age we are all familiar with. One can easily hear shades of Isaac Brock and Stephen Malkmus in vocalist Rob Danson’s delivery, with his range impressively stretching from moments of squealing intensity to subdued murmurs of sincere ardency. This is done over an equally impressive instrumental approach, with a wide array of guitars, keys, strings, and an exceptionally tight rhythm section.
-Obsure Sound Full Review Here
But judging from the guitar squalor and dissonant edge on its new album, "Fictitious Business," frontman Rob Danson and his bandmates mean business.
-LA Times (Buzz Bands) Full Review Here
Fictitious Business is the lost album between Pavement's "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" and "Wowee Zowee."
-Amateur Chemist Full Review Here
Rob Danson's vocals are strongly unique and add to the bizarre storytelling that the songs put forth.
-No-Fi Magazine Full Review Here
The California based indie band, Death To Anders...offers up some tasty, deceptively simple, jangling guitar work that wonderfully foreshadows something much more sinister and complex. With cryptic lyrics that float over beautifully jarring notes and sounds...Death To Anders captures perfectly all the smoldering sins that pile up in the corners of our lives and has burned them into a terrific CD that demands repeated listens.
-College Crowd Digs Me Full Review Here
The music itself is whimsical, making good use of the juxtaposition between quiet strums and blaring distortion. Death To Anders have a noisy yet cheerful approach sure to endear them to the DIY pop crowd.
-Grave Concerns Full Review Here
Death to Anders takes their folk-influence and frays it at the edges with rock influences like Sonic Youth.....not only are the songs catchy, they also have substance!
-Loose Record Full Review Here
Local indie rock act Death To Anders are one of the hardest working bands in this great big town of ours…. it's no surprise that they've become a really solid live act.
-Joe Fielder (Radio Free Silverlake) Full Review Here
The guys rocked the crap out of their sweat drenched set!
-Rock Insider
Type of Label: Indie