Dear Nora

The energy pop/punk “cuddle-core” outfit Dear Nora formed around Katy Davidson (vocals/guitar), Ryan Wise (bass), and Marianna Ritchey (drums). All three bandmembers had opted to university jointly at Lewis & Clark University in Portland, Oregon, where that they had each performed in various rings, like the Navins, Band of Seventeen, and Junction Town. Smart, Ritchey, and regional Portland musician Jake Longstreth had been also previously associates of an organization known as Wolf Colonel, and Ritchey and Davidson had been freshman-year roommates. They arrived together with a shared love of brief, guitar-driven tunes and sweet woman group-inspired harmonies, in addition to an gratitude for all sorts of ’60s pop music. Group innovator Davidson had began playing acoustic guitar in senior high school in her hometown in Az and began composing songs and performing by 1996. A couple of years later, in the summertime of 1999, she created Dear Nora, called after a university music teacher who offered as an motivation towards the group. Dear Nora in the beginning recorded several self-released cassettes before they released a self-titled 7″ solitary on the good Portland indie pop label Magic Marker Information. This launch was accompanied by another Magic Marker launch, an eight-song all-acoustic EP, Thinking ALOUD, which featured tunes created and performed by Davidson throughout a 24-hour time frame. In 2001 Dear Nora finally released a debut recording, We’ll Have a period, which was made by the Aislers Set’s Amy Linton (in fact, it was documented in Linton’s cellar). The recording presented their friend Longstreth on acoustic guitar (he also colored the album’s cover artwork). We’ll Possess a period was consequently released in 2002 in Japan on WAH! Information and featured all of the songs from your Dreaming ALOUD EP as reward tracks. Davidson ultimately relocated to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, where she started carrying out at solo displays. An EP entitled THE BRAND NEW Year premiered in 2002 following the group’s 1st tour of Japan. Using the group decreased to Davidson, items got quieter and much more introspective on 2004’s Hill Rock and much more experimental within the project’s third full-length, 2006’s THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO Home. 2 yrs later on, Magic Marker released the collection Three Claims: Rarities 1997-2007. Davidson relocated to LA in 2006 and collaborated with Ritchey within the album Just like God Produced Us, released beneath the name Lloyd and Michael by Claims Rights Information in 2008. She after that began recording beneath the single moniker Essential Losers. That project’s full-length debut, California Lite, was made by Phil Elverum of Support Eerie and released in 2011 via his label, P.W. Elverum & Sunlight. An record of addresses of Davidson’s music — including Dear Nora music — premiered in 2012. Having to pay tribute were serves such as Support Eerie, Iji (Zach Burba), and Mega Bog (Erin Birgy).