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Dave Fischoff

NEW ALBUM STREAMING: http://davefischoff.com/Music

About Me

HERE'S THE BRAND NEW VIDEO FOR "SMALL DRIFTS" DIRECTED BY SEAN U'REN:
You can BUY DAVE FISCHOFF’S THE CRAWL DIRECTLY FROM SECRETLY CANADIAN (click here) , AMAZON.COM (click here) or your favorite independent music retailer.
You can DOWNLOAD DAVE FISCHOFF’S THE CRAWL FROM EMUSIC (click here) or ITUNES.
You can LISTEN TO DAVE FISCHOFF'S THE CRAWL IN ITS ENTIRETY at http://davefischoff.com/Music (click here).
Dave Fischoff's The Crawl is the product of a single creative mind. Armed with a rather large arsenal of obscure samples culled from any sound he could get his hands on, Dave went to work. Alone in a near downtown basement apartment (sometimes in his bedroom closet), his mind took a very long trip, delving into the under-explored territory where electronic music, hip hop, and orchestral pop meet. Taking cues from The Beach Boys and Burt Bacharach to Boards of Canada and Public Enemy, Dave Fischoff has conceived, collected, cut and pasted, orchestrated and created a piece of work that is large and complex yet utterly personal and easily accessible.
HERE’S WHAT SOME CRITICS HAVE SAID ABOUT DAVE FISCHOFF’S THE CRAWL:
"Indie solo acts tossing around electronica samples can seem like a dime a dozen, but thankfully, Chicago's Dave Fischoff reels in a fresh catch on The Crawl. Fischoff fashions a hefty musical composite, drawing upon the likes of the Beach Boys and Burt Bacharach, whose bouncy '60s pop sounds fuel Fischoff's imagination into fluttering melodies. Add a splash of some of the Postal Service's chunkier electronica elements, and you've found yourself in Fischoff's whimsical world."
-SPIN.COM
"Fischoff wields a hefty sack of sounds to construct his tightly packed, electronic pop songs..including the entire Chicago Public Library sound collection. The Crawl is ecstatic in its density; on each song, Fischoff revels in just how much sound he can cram in without sacrificing clarity or the simple joys of a sugar-coated melody…Though he channels Bjork, Brian Wilson, the Polyphonic Spree, and even Public Enemy, often within a single composition, such as opener "The World Gets Smaller When You Dream", Fischoff's songs are intensely iconoclastic, a compendium of little obsessions that together create a vivid portrait of how their author views the world."
-POPMATTERS.COM
"Fischoff weaves solitary minisamples into elaborate harmonies and beats of their own, giving The Crawl’s sweet electropop an impressive amount of depth—if the Postal Service was a little smarter, it might sound something like this."
-TIME OUT CHICAGO
"As tales of reinvention go, Chicago-based singer-songwriter Dave Fischoff's could sit comfortably aside The Count of Monte Cristo. On 1998's Winston Park, he kept residence in the shell of an idea, carving fuzz-caked frescoes in the poetic gloaming. But The Crawl comes across almost like a Terry Gilliam take on Cristo, all exaggerated pieces filmed with a fish-eye lens that rarely stray from the main character's rifts between fantasy and reality. Endearing indie-tronic melodies and low-bit pneumatics place Fischoff in the territory of Figurine/Styrofoam, but the jittery staging never subverts the humanity."
-XLR8R
"Equal parts Brian Wilson, Sufjan Stevens, and the Postal Service (though certainly not a sum of the three), Fischoff crafts lovely and delicate pop that should appeal to a pretty wide swath of listeners."
-DUSTEDMAGAZINE.COM
"…an incredibly intricate slice of baroque electro-pop that's been compared to the likes of Brian Wilson, Burt Bacharach and the Magnetic Fields, just to name a few. Fischoff deserves these comparisons and more with this album that seems to get better with every successive track….The Crawl is one of those albums that delights you in a different way every time you listen to it."
-TREBLEZINE.COM
You can BUY DAVE FISCHOFF’S THE CRAWL DIRECTLY FROM SECRETLY CANADIAN (click here) , AMAZON.COM (click here) or your favorite independent music retailer.
You can DOWNLOAD DAVE FISCHOFF’S THE CRAWL FROM EMUSIC (click here) or ITUNES.
You can LISTEN TO DAVE FISCHOFF'S THE CRAWL IN ITS ENTIRETY at http://davefischoff.com/Music (click here).

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Music:

Member Since: 2/26/2006
Band Website: davefischoff.com
Band Members: In the studio: Dave Fischoff. On the stage: Dave Fischoff - guitar & vocals, Matt Hallock - bass, Chris Kolodziej - drums & laptop, Sharon Shattuck - viola.
Influences:

Sounds Like: Dave's new album, The Crawl, is currently streaming for free, in it's entirety, at his website. Want to hear it for yourself? Right this way, please:http://davefischoff.com/Music
Record Label: Secretly Canadian
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

MIDWEST / EAST COAST TOUR IN MARCH!

I'm happy to say the backing band and I are hitting the road the last week of March to play a few shows in towns I haven't been to in awhile. Here's what it looks like: 03/24/08 Ypsilanti, MI - The El...
Posted by Dave Fischoff on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:00:00 PST

HEAVEN OR LAS VEGAS INTERVIEW

I recently did an interview with the Scottish blog Heaven or Las Vegas and it's been posted for your reading pleasure. In it, we discuss my past and future music, my new remix and production project (...
Posted by Dave Fischoff on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:54:00 PST

PITCHFORK DIGS MY JENS LEKMAN REMIX

I just started a new remix and production project I'm calling Spoolwork, and Pitchfork had some nice things to say today about my remix of Jens Lekman's "I'm Leaving You Because I Don't Love You." Her...
Posted by Dave Fischoff on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:38:00 PST

JENS LEKMAN REMIX AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

I've just started a new remix and production project called Spoolwork, and to kick things off I've put together a remix of Jens Lekman's "I'm Leaving You Because I Don't Love You." The original versio...
Posted by Dave Fischoff on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:35:00 PST

PROFILE ON NPRS WEEKEND AMERICA, NOV. 3

Hey, so I gearing up to hit the road for a Midwest mini-tour with Jens Lekman starting tomorrow, but I wanted to quickly pass along a piece of news- The NPR program Weekend America is graciously using...
Posted by Dave Fischoff on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 05:12:00 PST

SECRETLY CANADIAN PODCAST: THE DAVE FISCHOFF EPISODE

I just finished my contribution to the Secretly Canadian podcast series and it's posted up if you'd care to have a listen. The label asked if I'd like to put together a little audio documentary about ...
Posted by Dave Fischoff on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:22:00 PST

NEW VIDEO FOR "SMALL DRIFTS" NOW STREAMING

I'm very excited to say that I just posted a brand new video on my Myspace page and it's yours for the viewing if you'd like to stop by for a visit (you can find it right under the "About Dave Fischof...
Posted by Dave Fischoff on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 05:23:00 PST

KCRWS "TODAYS TOP TUNE"  THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2007

Dear Myspace friends old and new,I just wanted to let everyone know that this Thursday, March 8, KCRW is featuring my song "Rain, Rain, Gasoline" on their "Today's Top Tune" podcast. What does this me...
Posted by Dave Fischoff on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:02:00 PST

A LIST OF FAVORITE MUSICAL THINGS FOR DUSTED MAGAZINE

The folks over at Dusted Magazine asked if I'd like to compile a list of 10 favorite musical experiences, and if you'd like to check out the list and my reasons for picking each of them, just follow y...
Posted by Dave Fischoff on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:05:00 PST

KIND WORDS FROM POPMATTERS.COM

Yes, the folks over at Popmatters.com had some quite nice things to say about my new album, The Crawl. If you'd like to get a critic's take on the new songs, just point your mouse clickers here:POPMAT...
Posted by Dave Fischoff on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:57:00 PST