I manage a band called The Depreciation Guild. We're about to release the band's debut full-length, which you can preview in its entirety right here...
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music. really late nites at home. really late nites in bars. British people who employ guitars and effects pedals to express their disillusionment with this world. denim. design. autumn. Spitalfields E1. Verdana. walking through casinos.
The foundation: Pixies, New Order, Air, The Verve, Slowdive, Stone Roses, Eno, Talking Heads, Teenage Fanclub, Radiohead, Blur, My Bloody Valentine, Boards of Canada, Scott Walker, Catherine Wheel, Daft Punk, The Smiths, Zero 7, U2, Sigur Ros, Jeff Buckley, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, Blonde Redhead, Belle & Sebastian, Boston, Depeche Mode, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Kitchens of Distinction, Luna, Richard Hawley, 80s R&B/Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis productions, classic rock, quiet storm, and lite fm radio formats, UK chart pop, Kompakt beats, hypermelodic singer/songwriters (they're rare), druggy atmospherics ...and it goes off in 1,000 directions from there.
...last week...clicky-clicky:
Memento, Mulholland Drive, The Hours, Karate Kid, When Harry Met Sally, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Big Lebowski, In The Name of the Father, Lost In Translation, Jesus' Son, Can't Hardly Wait, The Godfather, Election, Sin City.
The Honeymooners, The Sopranos, Conan O'Brien, The Daily Show, Cheers, The Office, Wonder Showzen. and Meet The Press, just to keep things street.
White Noise, Mao II - DeLillo, The Sound and The Fury - Faulkner, The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald, Nine Stories - Salinger, The Counterlife - Roth, Life of Pi - Martel, most Russell Banks, The Dirt - The Crue.
We could be Heroes / just for one day.