Cyrus Butler: drums, percussion, backing vocals, electric kazoo (seriously)
Michelle Gilliam: bass, vocals, keys
May Ann Pescante: lead vocals, guitar, keys
Influences
Jon Brion, Fiona Apple, Mt. Egypt, Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis, Prince, John Mayer, Rhett Miller, Old 97's, Jason Falkner, Magnet, The Cardigans, Pavement, Far, The Wallflowers, Travis, Elliott Smith, Radiohead, The Postal Service...
science, art, chaos, mathematics, science vs. art, science marrying art, paranormal activity, rocks, crime, you, words (origins), etymology, entomology, ice cream, relationships... you know, the usual.
Sounds Like
Jon Brion, Fiona Apple, Michelle Branch, The Shins, The Cranberries, Rhett Miller, Old 97's, Jenny Lewis, Rilo Kiley, Jason Falkner, Pavement, Elliott Smith
Eloise is in perfect balance. Their songs gracefully hover between pop and indie, marrying simple melodies with a growing sonic curiosity. The music and vocals sound delicate, relaxed, youthful and fun, while the lyrics contain brutally honest reflections ..xperiences, old relationships and present heartache. Eloise draws inspiration from everything: from pesky ghosts to '60s surf culture.
Composed of self-taught musicians, May Ann Pescante, Michelle Gilliam and Cyrus Butler, the band's unique sounds originate from a natural curiosity. The Los Angeles-based trio met while working in a Hollywood recording studio, but it wasn't until years after their meeting that they formed Eloise. May Ann Pescante, an L.A. native, lends her fragile yet robust voice to articulate insightful and intense ruminations, such as the opening line in "Little Star" ("I bought a phone card / I pay good money to argue with you"), as she gently strums her guitar. Michelle Gilliam, a transplant from Santa Fe, New Mexico, crafts unique and melodic bass lines, while singing vocals that haunt, captivate and support. Cyrus Butler, hailing from California's central coast, anchors the songs with distinctive, driving and improvised drum parts, but also lends his lungs to generate a mean electric kazoo solo in "Substitute". With forces combined, they produce tunes that send tingles down the spine and leave the audience aching for more.
Dear friends, my elder bro Dima has made a page dedicated to our lo-fi studio “Happy Records” based in Kyiv, Ukraine, created for non-profit purposes. The focus of the studio work is producing indie artists we subjectively find interesting.
So please, find some time and listen to our friends’ music recorded by us at:
hey May!!! so i just heard your music, my computer was acting stupid the day you sent the link, and i must say that it's awesome!!! WOW, i really like it!!! when's the next show? let me know k!
Oh cool awesome n yey CD's!!! yeh us guys really hope to make it... the band sounds cool n it would be nice to meet you :) so sure, when you activate it just message me or something...hope to hear from u soon... Holly and Coco
Oh Wow thats awesome!!! too bad that you arent playing a show i would definatly have come!! so how are you and hows the music going?? You got any plans when you get here? loving listening to your songs as always :) Nice hearing from you Holly...
no problemo & awesome hopefully it will be a bit sunnier for when you come the weathers been slightly apocalyptic lately =s and yeh well its the two of us but she does most of the singing
hi eloise thanks for the add =) you have some really immense tunes...my sister hollys mentioned you guys before and im glad she did & introduced me to your music...shes in london at the moment slumming it without internet so shes probably not checked the bands myspace in a while but im sure shell be glad to hear your comming to london =)
