Christmas Fuller Project (New songs!)

Bio:

Christmas Fuller Project is an indie pop/rock four-piece based out of Fayetteville, Arkansas. CFP formed in 2005 as an outlet for four singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalists to further craft their songs in a full-band setting. The lineup now consists of Tyler Ceola (keyboards), Brandon George (vocals, guitars), Cameron Heger (drums, percussion), and Aaron Hopwood (bass, vocals).

While the number of contributing songwriters gives them a very eclectic sound, all four members share common unifying influences. CFP’s primary influences include Radiohead, Wilco, Sufjan Stevens, Death Cab for Cutie, The Arcade Fire, The Beatles, Sigur Ros, Spoon. They combine beautiful, melody-driven pop music with rock sensibilities and occasionally experimental instrumentation. They played their first show in February 2006 and have played consistently throughout Northwest Arkansas since.

In May 2006, they released 5-song demo CD titled The Milkhouse EP, a collection of straightforward pop songs. Soon after, they began another batch of DIY recordings, which ultimately became their first full-length album The Philosophy of Time Travel, released June 2007. The band spent their first bit of time in an actual recording studio in December 2008, which resulted in the well-received "Green & Lonely EP", released in 2009. The band has since wrapped production on a forthcoming studio LP titled "Roman Candle Wars" tentatively set for an August 2010 release.

The band, while playing primarily near Fayetteville, has garnered three Northwest Arkansas Music Award nominations and other positive press from minor music publications.

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Christmas Fuller Project's brand new studio EP, "Green & Lonely" (2009), as well as their first full-length album, "The Philosophy of Time Travel" (2007) are now available at shows, CDBaby.com, select Northwest Arkansas record stores, iTunes, and immediately below this paragraph. You can stream them in their entirety at the CDBaby pages, if you need to wet your whistle. We are extremely glad that you are here.

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NEW: CFP now has t-shirts available! If you would like one, e-mail us at christmasfullerproject@gmail.com , MySpace message us, or come to a show! The shirts are $10 and we will accept checks or money orders from online customers.
The shirts are printed on "indigo blue" Gildan 50% cotton/50% polyester blended t-shirts with cardinal red graphics on the front. Sizes include S, M, L, XL, & XXL.

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Be sure to shoot us an e-mail at christmasfullerproject@gmail.com to get on our mailing list. If you want to book us, use said e-mail address or send us a MySpace message--we love playing new places.

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The making of CFP's new EP "Green & Lonely."

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CFP performing "Five Points" live at the Jones TV studio.

Member Since:

February 20, 2006

Members:

Tyler Ceola
Brandon George
Cameron Heger
Aaron Hopwood

Influences:

Spoon, Sufjan Stevens, Wilco, Radiohead, David Crowder*Band, The Arcade Fire, Nada Surf, Ambulance LTD., Death Cab for Cutie, Elton John, The Strokes, Doves, Andrew Bird, does one have to say The Beatles? Dylan?, Sigur Ros, Broken Social Scene and family, David Gray, Ben Folds, Wolf Parade, The National, Belle & Sebastian, Al Green, life, death, females, hope, faith, lack of faith, redemption, pain, ignorance, curiosity, decay, helplessness, C.S. Lewis, being proven wrong, time travel, Michael Jordan and the 1997 championship Chicago Bulls, Emily Dickinson, unanswerable questions, Captain Matthew Webb, a God that is three persons in one, family, laughter, reconstruction, relationships, authenticity, deceptions, healing, love

Sounds Like:

Melodic pop music with a few wrinkles of experimentation.

------Discography-----

The Milkhouse EP [2006]

The Philosophy of Time Travel [2007]

Green & Lonely (EP) [2009]

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"...an impressive piece of work. Christmas Fuller Project makes music like no else in Northwest Arkansas, and I’m eager to see what they can do on their next LP."
--Ozarks Unbound

"I'm surprised something like this is coming out of Arkansas. [I'm] absolutely in love with this song right now."
--Circles of Concrete

"Christmas Fuller Project is out of Arkansas and have a quality that is hard to point to, but makes the music personable... gives off that feeling of talking to an old friend, in addition to just being really catchy."
--The Album Project

"Christmas Fuller Project is indeed a great band, a great indie band, actually."
--Eardrums Music

"“Green & Lonely” might not divert much from other bands in the indie music scene, but it does testify that at least one band in Northwest Arkansas does have the quality and the songwriting abilities to get to the top of the indie rock scene."
--Free Weekly

"Christmas Fuller Project is four college-age guys from Arkansas who play the sort of thoughtful, cheerful pop music that I would have died for in high school, when I wanted nothing more to slip into someone else's shoes and get away. They've been playing together since 2005, and their work ethic is obvious; I expect their music will only get better."
--The Glorious Hum

"All of a sudden, I continue to hear new bands on almost a weekly basis that make me say “I can’t believe these guys are from Fayetteville,” and Christmas Fuller Project is one of those bands."
--Fayetteville Flyer

"It is nice to see such ambition from a young band and on the whole it mostly pays off... they combine delicious melodies with sweeping guitar lines and occasionally hushed vocals."
--Oceans Never Listen

"You’re not going to be disappointed by this album. I’m not going to inflate this album so much as to tell you it’s one of the all-time greats, but it’s certainly good. You probably won’t find it on any year-end lists of any major music reviewer, but that’s in-part because they’ve never heard it."
--The Ghost of Me

"Christmas Fuller Project knows it's showing its musical influences where everyone can clearly see them, but a band with this much pop craftsmanship to start out with should round into its own in no time."
--Minutia Music