Biography
Kleenex Girl Question is really a long-running indie rock and roll task helmed by Illinois indigenous Graham Smith. Originally filled with music artists from his hometown of Downers Grove, Smith started launching albums in 1996, you start with Intimate Harassment and 1997’s Graham Smith May be the Coolest Person Alive. A prolific D.We.Con. bedroom pop songwriter that has sometimes been in comparison to Led by Voices’ Robert Pollard, Smith spent the next decade providing music under different guises and lineups, occasionally getting billed as KGW, Kleen Ex-Girl Question, or Graham Smith & KGW. Ultimately relocating to NY, Smith released a big four-album box established known as CMYK in 2006, that was followed 2 yrs later by way of a compendium of unreleased paths and alternate will take called Yes Employer. Often raw, psychological, and occasionally funny, Smith provides continued to turn out songs in a apparently tireless speed, with features like 2010’s single record Accept the Secret and 2011’s music group release Secret Considering. By this aspect, Kleenex Girl Question had coalesced right into a pretty stable trio highlighted Smith on vocals and bass, Thayer McClanahan on electric guitar, and Matt LeMay on drums. This is actually the lineup in charge of 2013’s ALLOW IT Buffer and 2016’s ambitious double-LP The Humor Album.