Nigel Dennis : All Todd Miller : All Mike Brown : All Aaron Vincel : Drums, Percussion Ashwin Deepankar : Drums, Percussion, Vocals Patrick Burnell : Trumpet, Percussion, Guitar Kate Myers : Vocals, Percussion
There’s a little room on Chicago’s Northwest side where this thing is happening. There isn’t much to say about the room itself. It has walls that give if pushed and would fall over if pushed hard enough. There’s a wood floor. There’s a dirty, thin carpet on top of the wood floor. There are old cigarette butts that belong in other mouths that live on the carpet, in the burn marks they have created. The history of the room has been scribbled in mostly tacky, generic markings by its past inhabitants, drawings of tattoo style roses, dragons and lists of the best group of friends who will never die. There are pipes near the ceiling. There are Christmas lights wrapped around them. Their ends have been cut, so they can’t do what they were born into this world to do.
But what matters is what happens within those walls, on those floors, under the unlit lights and pipes, among the burned out cigarettes and black marker drawings that grace the walls. Somewhere in the midst of all of these things, sounds that belong in other places find their ways together and make a home with each other, market places of old world Baghdad, choruses of classic Bollywood, forests filled with beasts and fields where flying, flickering fairies brush the tops of the long grass and swaying wheat.
The people who bring all of this together and carefully form it into A Lull are Nigel Dennis, Mike Brown and Todd Miller, among others, various friends who have been kind enough and willing to lend a hand or two along the way. All three are formerly of other Chicago based bands, Nigel and Todd (and Mike briefly) of The Evaluation, and Mike of The Skies We Built and Mike (and Nigel briefly) of Ateriavia.
A Lull’s debut single is entitled “Skinny Fingers/Little Echoes,” and they are currently hard at work molding, crafting and perfecting their debut full-length album entitled “Confetti.”
What the Internet and others have been saying about A Lull, "Ice Cream Bones" EP, the "Skinny Fingers" video and everything else:
“There was an ethereal quality to the songs reminiscent of atmospheric bands like Efterklang and Grizzly Bear. And when the songs fell into a percussive groove, it sounded pretty darn cool... I'm eager to hear more.” www.undergroundbee.com
“Ice Cream Bones EP is enough to have my watchful eye peeking at A Lull's future catalog for a long time.” www.praiseforwallflower.com
“The band creates dreamy, mesmerizing indie pop that's both unconventional and accessible, filled with just enough subtle hooks to draw you in and leave you wanting more.” www.windycityrock.net
“I saw A Lull perform at Bottom Lounge and I fell in love with the music. Not only was it the music, but the entire visual experience. That is, this cohesive unity you could see within the band and you could tell all of them were passionate about what they were producing.” www.themidwestwasteland.com
“... a lush, intricate, headphone-ready indie pop record that surprises, delights and frustrates...” www.westword.com
“A Lull provides us with a tranquil allotment of hooks that prove more memorable than anything most of their “colleagues” can conjure up.” www.consequenceofsound.net
“A Lull weaves with a light hand, gently placing layer after soft layer on top of subtle rhythms to create an airy and entirely carefree sound.” www.absolutepunk.net
“The music has an ethereal complexion and a trance-like effect on the listener which massages the senses and rubs away any spots of tension. It’s not music that motivates action, but is simply good listening music, something like a barcalounger for the ears.” www.ultimate-guitar.com
“I am digging this song.” www.soundsaslanguage.com
“A Lull is very interesting with their unique style of using different instruments and layering them together... For the obscure at heart, this is something worthwhile. To get the full effect, listen to it with headphones.” www.staticmultimedia.com
“The video and mp3 for “Skinny Fingers” popped up in my inbox a few days ago and I have had it on repeat ever since.” www.citizendick.org
“...a short and great record...” www.praiseforwallflower.com
“Great music, great design, great art. Everything just great.” www.changethethought.com
“It has a cool Fleet Foxes vocal vibe with some Yankee Hotel Foxtrot musicality mixed in. Very cool stuff.” www.themidnightcafe.org
“I’m really digging what I hear from these guys...” www.thefrontloader.com
"...catchy, buoyant pop out of sometimes skewed or experimental ingredients, including dark electronic ambience and sputtering synthesized percussion." Jim DeRogatis, Chicago Sun-Times
what's up, practice space neighbors? we like the sounds you make, rattling our walls. hope to make it to a show sometime soon! if you guys aren't busy, we're playing a free show tomorrow night at the mutiny, check it out!
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