Dan Friel

Acquiring an abrasive, distorted method of electronic music, Dan Friel (co-founder of Brooklyn sound rock-band Parts & Labor) uses vintage synthesizers wired through guitar pedals and crusty drum models for his single project. As severe, jagged, and demanding as his recordings could be, they’re extremely melodic and vibrant, celebrating existence despite most of its complexities and frustrations. Having previously added to Traditional western Massachusetts sound punk music group Squidlaunch through the middle-’90s, Friel started working on single materials in his Bed-Stuy cellar, and self-released a loud, trebly CD known as Broken Man Likely to Function in 2001. In 2002 he co-founded Parts & Labor with B.J. Warshaw. Over time, the group released five full-lengths and many EPs and singles (including produces on Jagjaguwar and Ace Fu, and a break up launch with Tyondai Braxton on Narnack Information), toured greatly, and received acclaim from several publications, such as for example Pitchfork, The Guardian, and Q. While an associate of Parts & Labor, Friel released some more limited single recordings, you start with 2004’s Sunburn on Velocirecords. This is accompanied by a 2005 tape known as Obsoleter on Night time People (later on released on vinyl fabric by Spooky Tree). Also in 2005, Friel and Warshaw co-founded Cardboard Information, a label that released recordings by their music group aswell as friends such as for example Pterodactyl and Ecstatic Sunlight. Parts & Labor’s 2006 EP Escapers One (around the Broklyn Beats label) diverted using their sound rock sound, arriving nearer to the digital audio of Friel’s single function. Friel released Ghost City, his first accessible single album, on Essential Information in 2008. In 2011 he released a collaborative 7″ one with innovative rhythmic sound musician Mincemeat or Tenspeed in the Ormolycka label. After Parts & Labor performed their final present in Feb of 2012, Friel agreed upon to the left-of-center Chicago label Thrill Jockey. The Valedictorian/Exoskeleton EP premiered in 2012, including remixes by Moss of Aura and Peaking Lighting. His debut full-length for the label, Total Folklore, found its way to 2013. Following delivery of his boy, Friel released the celebratory Lifestyle in 2015.