Tag Archives: Chamber Pop

Often set alongside the famous Serge Gainsbourg, singer/songwriter/arranger Benjamin Biolay is less likely to ask some lovely like Brigitte Bardot or Françoise Hardy to sing his songs when he may get it done equally well himself — although Gainsbourg did frequently duet along with his protégées, especially Jane Birkin around …

Led by Montana native Colin Meloy, the Decemberists create theatrical, hyper-literate pop songs that attract heavily from past due-’60s Uk folk functions like Fairport Convention and Pentangle as well as the early-’80s college rock and roll grandeur from the Waterboys and R.E.M. The band’s preliminary lineup also included drummer Ezra …

The Dears, a loose collective of Montreal-area music artists formed in 1995, are led with the charismatic Murray Lightburn. Citing Serge Gainsbourg as a significant influence, the music group combines cabaret-style vocals using a moody, extreme make of orchestral pop/rock and roll. Lightburn’s eyesight for the music group is to …

Fusing components of ’70s rock and roll, ’80s brand-new wave, and ’90s emo pop, with some Dogs and cats Sounds-era Beach Guys thrown in, the distinctive sound of Koufax gained more than underground stars the GET RIGHT UP Kids. Using the disintegration of many Detroit and Northwestern Ohio rings, the …

Like a founding person in the experimental indie pop group Broken Sociable Scene, and a person in the label that generates its music, Arts & Crafts, Kevin Drew caused ten or even more musicians inside a collective that helped usher in the chamber pop motion. He was raised in Toronto …

Belying his status being a narcoleptic slacker icon, Badly Attracted Boy demonstrated himself a tireless pop songwriter, with arrangements that reveal significant amounts of creativity. Blessed Damon Gough, he started recording after conference the like-minded Andy Votel at a Manchester nightclub. The set produced the Twisted Nerve label, and Gough …

Indie track sculptor Tony Carbone started releasing his Seaside Males/Burt Bacharach-styled Western Coast pop music beneath the name Bikeride in 1997. The band’s schizophrenic undertake nearly every well-known musical design from Beatlesque light psychedelia towards the Pixies’ alt-rock pioneering (not forgetting bossa nova, jazz, and fresh wave mod) captured the …

Neo-psychedelic pop outfit the Essex Green were shaped in middle-1997 after 4 members from the Burlington, VT-based Guppyboy — singer/guitarist Chris Ziter, singer/keyboardist Sasha Bell, guitarist Jeff Baron, and bassist Mike Barrett — relocated to Brooklyn, NY. Completing the lineup with drummer Tim Barnes, the group made an appearance at …

Motivated by film, photography, art, as well as the climate in its house country of Finland, Husky Save was shaped by Marko Nyberg in 2002. Nyberg proceeded to go beneath the name Husky Recovery while saving the debut record with about 20 music artists and singers. Nation Falls, an ambient …

American post-classical composer Jim O’Rourke is a essential component within the raising overlap from the American and Western european experimental music avant-garde, employed in from jazz and rock to ambient and electro-acoustic, and building many a bridge among. A Chicago indigenous, his work provides found equal good luck with experimental …