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About Me

Estel formed officially in fall 2003. For such a young band their roots grow deep, bridging one genre to the next through their music. What do they sound like? Folk? Rock? Electronica? Alternative? Not really - even though they use all of these things, they are none of the above. I can't pin it down, and to me that's a treasured inconvenience in bands nowadays. Though a small three-piece, these guys have a lot to say. Get near Stephen long enough and you'll want to consume the book that you wonder if he'll ever write as he pours out his art in pure intelligence. Kevin's quiet persona is amplified when he sets his mac on a stand and picks up his guitar, ready to get lost in what he loves most - the live outpouring. It's refreshing to find a drummer who is just as innovative as the rest of the band. I am not lying when I say that estel could not be estel without Jeremy. He is a writer, a creator, a force for new sounds and honest, unexpected songs. This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editor™ V2.5

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/9/2004
Band Website: estelishope.com
Band Members: //Kevin DeShields - Guitars, Vocals, Programming/Sequencing, horns
//Stephen Morrison - Guitars, Vocals, Programming, mandolin
//Jeremy Andler - Drums and Percussion

*Currently looking for a bassist
Influences: The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, David Gray, Sigur Ros, Iron and Wine, Radiohead, Coldplay, Travis, Frou Frou, Mum, Chris Thile, Muse, John Blackwell, He Is Legend, Nickel Creek, Madeleine Peyroux, The Mars Volta, Sondre Lerche, Wilco, Damien Rice, etc.
Sounds Like: I like saying "rock music." I like using this term; no one is quite sure what it means. Yet that's how I feel about these songs that we write. It's just like those times when you're all excited about this thing that happened to you at some time in this place, and you go nuts trying to get your friend to understand exactly what happened - exactly how it felt, you're trying to get them to see and then... You find out that all you can really think say is, "You just had to be there to understand." That is what I mean when I say "rock music."
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

we sing tonight

I just got back from a Mutemath show. Caveat: it was stunning. Such a deep groove, in everything. Remarkable. What acuity. What sophistication in composition. What attention and heart. What joy. I ...
Posted by estel on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 09:39:00 PST

fate

What do we care about fate? Fate. Fate is beyond our ability to control. But we are such control freaks, what would we care for such a proposition? Fate is fact, immutable, and no less so for bein...
Posted by estel on Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:22:00 PST

the dog and the hamster

This is the story of a battle between two pets that was so fierce, it did not respect even mortality. It is impossible to know exactly why a mutt named Baby bore such enmity for a hamster named Wh...
Posted by estel on Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:04:00 PST

up stairs, and in the rain

He comes over the top first. I can see him around the corner. The skies are a variable grey, clouds in movement, wisps at the edges of the heights hinting that somewhere beyond, there is a blue sky. A...
Posted by estel on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 02:15:00 PST

and i was shocked to receive it

Why are we beings of such pride? What can we call our own that we should be sometimes moved to defend it so maliciously? Why do we eye each other so suspiciously, sizing each other up for a fight not ...
Posted by estel on Tue, 06 Sep 2005 01:41:00 PST

commentary

He lay along his side on the floor, leaning against the back of the couch. Images. TV is mostly comprised of a litany of quickly moving images designed to keep you sitting there long enough for the ne...
Posted by estel on Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:36:00 PST

grrr.

I'm tired. It's 2:30am. I have to work this morning. I can't shut my mind off. I imagine all the thoughts swirling about my head and I gather them together with a motion from my hand, like magic, push...
Posted by estel on Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:33:00 PST

Observations: from about two months ago...

I just happened upon this in my notes... I like it: I think about someone that I do not know. Is this unreasonable, or is it the reason? I mull over questions that I had not thought to answer wh...
Posted by estel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

distance - just a wandering

Here I'll post some sort of appeal to the powers that may not be, and the appeal shall not be spoken for you to hear - not with all the specifics. Suffice to say, I grow weary of the game of late. I f...
Posted by estel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

telling the tale

I'm drifting to the sounds of Emiliana Torrini's latest effort. And beneath that is the memory of a lovely chanteuse named Keren Ann and her album Nolita. The soundtrack is continuing over the scenes ...
Posted by estel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST