LETCHER

Music:

Member Since: 3/22/2006
Band Website: letchermusic.com
Band Members: Chris Letcher
(guitar / harmonium / synths / singing)

Dave Eugene Webb
(drums / accordion)

Andrew Joseph
(bass)

Ross Richardson
(guitar / voice)
www.rossmusic.co.uk

Victoria Hume
(Vox / synths / guitar)
www.victoriahume.com
Influences: Silver Jews, Kevin Volans, John Cage, The Locust, Cat Power, Steve Reich, Subtitle, Smog, James Phillips, Abdullah Ibrahim, Morton Feldman, Jennifer Ferguson, Talking Heads, GSL, Mr Malkmus, Trevor Wishart, Basil Coetzee, Patrick White
Sounds Like: “Letcher has created a world that feels somehow more real than the one we're living in, and when the album is over, our own world doesn't feel quite the same.” Etan Rosenbloom, Prefix Mag

“A sense of luminous menace... proof of the pleasure-potential of the disquieting and disturbed." Guardian UK, June 2007

"Diese Album ist ein horenswerter Gegenbeweis; Da hat jemand viel gewollt und viel geschafft." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 2007

"Fascinatingly delicate textures that enhance the somber narratives." Ken Barnes, USA Today

“Dense, gorgeous pop.” Maura Johnston, Idolator

“Makes the earnest mopes of miserable bastards like David Gray and Damien Rice look like laundry lists.” - GQ (April 2007)

“A lush orchestrated soundtrack in search of a film - you know, something big budget and with lots of expensive crane shots and boyfriends in the rain calling up to their girlfriends illuminated windows. John Cusack needs to hear this.” Mike Errico, Senior Editor - Blender Magazine, USA June 2007

"The most sophisticated rock album ever made by a South African Artist." FHM (February 2007)

"The album Frieze illustrates that Chris Letcher is one of the greatest songwriters to grace the shores of this southern-most tip of Africa." Lloyd Gedye, Mail & Guardian

"This is simply a great album. Truly world class. Intricate, complex, melodic, ambitious, funny, literate and so damn listenable it will make you gasp" - Jeremy Daniel, The Star

"Keenly intelligent, musically dense, utterly memorable, always sliding through any attempts to nail it down to a genre." Diane Coetzer, Billboard/Entertainment Africa

"The album Frieze illustrates that Chris Letcher is one of the greatest songwriters to grace the shores of this southern-most tip of Africa." - Lloyd Gedye, Mail & Guardian *****

Record Label: 2Feet/Sheer Sound
Type of Label: Indie