Chuck - guitar, vocals, songs
Adam - drums, keys, vocals, arrangement, moral compass
other Halophiles:
Conor Mc,
Jon River,
Rob Allison,
Steven,
Aaron
Influences
Halophiles are extremophiles that thrive in environments with very high concentrations of salt. The name comes from Greek for "salt-loving". While the term is perhaps most often applied to some halophiles classified into the Archaea domain, there are also bacterial halophiles and some eukaryota, such as the alga Dunaliella salina. Some well-known species give off a red color from carotenoid compounds. Such species contain the photosynthetic pigment bacteriorhodopsin. Halophiles are categorized slight, moderate or extreme, by the extent of their halotolerance. Halophiles can be found anywhere with a concentration of salt 5 times greater than the salt concentration of the ocean, such as the Great Salt Lake in Utah, Owens Lake in California, the Dead Sea, and in evaporation ponds
Sounds Like
rejection, humiliation, frustration and general light hearted moodiness...it comes from a place of love....i promise
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You remember that band you were in in high school – all sloppy naivete, uncool earnestness, & bad mixing? Halophile is that band refined into its purest form, that is to say the leaden weight of inexperience, pretension, & ambition transmuted into golden rush of near-perfect indie songwriting. Their recent relocation to Louisville, after stops in Seattle & NYC, appropriately signals such alchemical tendencies: Panic Bird betrays a slew of influences – not least among them post-punk demigods Slint – but manages to tiptoe along a path that avoids the flattery side of the imitation equation.
As the delicate, slippery, bent guitar intro to "Tundra Skies" immediately proves, the line of influence extends far beyond the distinct sound of Halophile's adopted hometown: this lead track evokes a slightly countrified Bedhead, a sound which extends to the next song, "Ancient Dogs in Transit," which adds a strained, crunchy yell during the chorus, reminiscent of such Midwest emo acts as the Anniversary. The situation is further muddied by shades of the minimalist mystery of Three Mile Pilot, especially on "Desert Breath" & "Sedatives."
Often the biggest hurdles for bands like Halophile are to not lose themselves in bland, generally anonymous indie-rock & – on the other end of that spectrum – to not influence-hop their way to an uneven-sounding album. The ten tracks that make up Panic Bird avoid the latter with ease, despite the various strands of their making. As for the former, the band does teeter ever on the edge of the abyss, but falls in only once: the low-energy, unimaginative "Beautifully Insane" splits the album nearly down the middle, resulting in two well-aligned halves. Fortunately this single mis-step does very little to weaken the overall effect of the album.
Halophile is already at work on a follow-up to Panic Bird, so we'll soon see if this promising creative partnership can produce consistently. Until then, I'll be content to listen to this magnificent record, & wax nostalgic about the heady days of high-school rock & roll. by Sam Wharton of Urban Distribution 9/10
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"Keep on rocking in the free world!" P.S. If you guys are on facebook please send me an email with your full names so I can and you guys as friends. Cheers! Yeah, see you soon. Tom G.
hey guys, it was grand playing with you on our super duper mini tour, a.k.a. SPRING 09 ROCK YR FACE SUPER NW TOUR EXTRAORDINAIRE! let's do it again sometime
you set was great, we all really enjoyed it. have fun on tour. i see you're going to be playing at the Red Lion in Eureka. Word of warning, it isn't what you think. Ladies pool tournament was on the night we played there. Good luck!
