Enon

Enon may be the trio of John Schmersal (who was simply associated with Brainiac and John Stuart Mill) and Rick Lee and Steve Calhoon (both of Skeleton Essential). Like organizations such as for example Olivia Tremor Control, they’re thinking about discovering that wide place between pop/rock and roll songs and sound, employing a prosperity of samples, commercial sound digesting, and percussion that veers toward crockery-smashing murkiness. Much less willing toward melodies from the 1960s and ’70s simply because groupings like Olivia Tremor Control are, you can find nonetheless frequently pensive, oddball pop music lurking within their swathe of audio. Enon, originally the task of Schmersal by itself, put out several indie singles before Schmersal shifted to NY to hyperlink up with Calhoon and Lee. Calhoon still left the music group and was changed by Toko Yasuda; the addition of Matt Schulz produced the group a quartet. Their debut record, Believo!, premiered in 2000, and demonstrated the fact that lineup was an effective one. High Culture implemented in 2002, using the same players but a far more poppy, uptempo audio. The following season, the group released the IN THIS PARTICULAR City EP, continued tour using the Faint, and in addition released Hocus Pocus, which discovered the band relocating an electric pop path. The B-sides collection Shed Marbles and Exploded Proof found its way to early 2005. In 2007, Enon came back with their 1st new recording in four years, Lawn Geysers, Carbon Clouds, which combined the band’s digital, pop, and rock and roll elements a lot more seamlessly. The group known as it each day in 2011, with Schmersal reuniting with Lee to create Crooks on Tape around that point.