Tag Archives: The Polyphonic Spree

With half its members surviving in Texas (Brandon Carr and J.M. Lapham) as well as the spouse (Religious Madden and Giles Hatton) in north Britain, the Earlies bridge the physical gap using the miracles of technology as well as the group’s distributed like of prog, psychedelic, nation, and electronica. The …

Establishing a link between different decades via an imaginative, interactive display not unlike that of the Flaming Lips, the Sippy Mugs play rock and roll music for youngsters and their parents. The California-based group shaped in 2004 across the skills of vocalist Paul Godwin (an early-childhood music instructor who composed …

Placing the “spaced” back to space rock and roll, California neo-psychedelicists West Indian Girl perform a druggy type of desire pop that calls for the contemporary design of the Flaming Lips, Grandaddy, and Mercury Rev as their starting place and add ’60s and ’70s echoes which range from the droning …

Frequently set alongside the elaborate orchestral sound from the Arcade Fire (actually, exactly the same artist designed their album cover), the Kissaway Trail hail from Odense, Denmark, and comprise Thomas Fagerlund (vocals, guitar), Søren Corneliussen (vocals, guitar), Daniel Skjoldmose (guitar, keyboard), Rune Pedersen (bass), and Hasse Mydtskov (drums). Corneliussen, Fagerlund, …

St. Vincent became among the unpredicted success tales of indie rock and roll with the launch of her second recording, Actor, in ’09 2009; the literate, psychologically intricate tunes and rich, superbly crafted pop melodies produced her an instantaneous strike with critics, but few anticipated her music to cross to …

When the rock and roll histories from the 2000s are created, one or more longer chapter should be specialized in the explosion of the idea of the rock-band not as a little, discrete device with relatively steady personnel, but as an amorphous, free-floating collective which could at times broaden to …

Locating an unlikely middle stage between Suicide’s hostile, proto-electro punk art noises as well as the sardonic, pop-friendly appear from the Flaming Lips, MGMT began as electroclash musical terrorists but quickly grew into an eclectic, brainy pop group with psychedelic overtones. MGMT initial shaped in 2002, during Ben Goldwasser and …

LA group Body of Drinking water pursue the extravagance from the Polyphonic Spree and Arcade Open fire, combining American traditional folk, theater, along with a deep admiration of gospel. As the lineup frequently develops to 11 people, the primary users are Kyle Gladden (bass); Meredith Metcalf (body organ); Meredith’s spouse, …

The Choir Practice was one of the large-scale indie pop ensembles to emerge in the dawn from the 21st century. Like the Polyphonic Spree insofar because they used the trappings of the choir, this Vancouver-based group drew seriously from traditional chorale music and ’60s works just like the Mamas & …

Produced in 2007 by Ima Automatic robot frontman Alex Ebert following a brief amount of existential crisis, the cultish ten-piece indie rock and roll outfit Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros pull their inspiration in the communal musical communities that peppered Southern California (specifically Laurel Canyon) with positive vibrations through …