Daniel Maher: guitar, vocals, glockenspiel, keyboard, accordion, organ. Dylan Margerum: bass, organ, guitar, glockenspiel, harmonica, backing vocals. Tyler Soucy: drums, bells.
All songs written by Daniel Maher. Produced by Dylan Margerum and Daniel Maher.
Influences
The Beach Boys, Brendan Benson, David Bowie, Neko Case, Cat Power, Brian Eno, Ed Harcourt, Imperial Teen, Jens Lekman, Loretta Lynn, Stephen Malkmus/ Pavement, Aimee Mann, Neutral Milk Hotel, Liz Phair, Lou Reed/ Velvet Underground, The Ronnettes, The Shangri-Las, Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens, T-Rex, M. Ward, Wilco, blah, blah, blah.
Sounds Like
People are telling me my studio stuff sounds like The Shins a little. For my home recordings I got The Magnetic Fields, Liz Phair, and Elliott Smith a lot. Other Music said Lou Barlow. I don't know.
Record Label
Sign me! I ran out of cash to finish/ mix my album
Daniel recently ended his brief hiatus from music and is writing new songs for his next (and seventh) album. _____________________________________________________________________________
In the fall of 2006, Daniel Maher quit his job and began recording songs for his debut studio LP with good friend and established producer, Dylan Margerum. “Waves Crash In Stereo,” includes the best material from his five self-released albums and a batch of brand new songs. Of the summery indie-pop record, UK based Taxi Magazine states; “his album, when released, ought to be a staple of everyone's record collection."
Built on Daniel’s do-it-yourself sensibilities (all five previous albums were recorded, performed, and mixed by Daniel himself) more than half of these songs have tracks that were recorded by Daniel in his bedroom.
In addition to playing about fifteen shows at Manhattan's Mercury Lounge, Daniel has performed at many esteemed New York staples such as The Knitting Factory, Galapagos, Don Hill's, Pete's Candy Store (also about fifteen times), CBGB's, Sin-E, and the now defunct Brownies. Jane Magazine called him "so talented with an insanely catchy sound," and featured his 8-track demo of the song, "What Did You Expect,” on an accompanying CD that was compiled by the Jane staff and Liz Phair. Three of Daniel’s albums have been sold and displayed with accompanying write-ups at the infamous indie record store, Other Music in Manhattan. Daniel also recently composed a song for (and acted in) the short film, "Diary Of An Addict," directed by Adam Hada.
Fun fact: Due to budget constraints, drums for all nine songs containing them (thus far) were recorded in eight hours by Tyler “the machine” Soucy.
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heres my comment: 'i dont want to rush, but thats all i know how to do' me too. i never thought the sound from an accordion could make me want a hug!? beautiful!
