All Together is an early high mark to measure creativity against in 2008. --- Exclaim
...joyful theatrics, like an indie cabaret or hipster musical. --- Treblezine
With a sound spanning the sonic gaps between artists like Questlove and Radiohead
--- Absolutepunk
Pattern Is Movement makes the kind of music you'd expect to hear accompanying
Catbert as he outlines yet another plan for world domination --- Westword
Philadelphia duo's creations are not senseless, artsy ramblings but beautifully
intense studies in theme and variation that take melodic or rhythmic figures and
find unexpected ways to invert, contort and reverse their structures over the
course of a concise three-minute song. -- Riverfront Times
All Together does not sound like something that was created in a shed but rather
the sound of somebody making something in a shed [and] all I know is, whatever
they’re putting together in that shed, it sounds cool as fuck. -- incendiary.com
the show was unlike anything I’ve seen before—a strange sort of Baroque carnival
featuring the vaudeville vocals and piping organ of frontman Andrew Thiboldeaux
and enough fills and polyrhythms from drummer Chris Ward to knock down a skyscraper.
-- San Diego Citybeat
"Listening to Philadelphia duo Pattern is Movement for the first time can perhaps best be described as taking a ride through Disney's 'It's a Small World After All', with each country representing a different period of music. It's a lot to take in, as sounds of the past are layered upon each other to create modern arrangements unlike anything you've heard before, while somehow remaining distantly familiar." -- Gothamist
All
Together
(2008)
All
Together continues
the mysterious narrative of the band and it exalts their existence as a
two-man
wall of sound. The pounding energy of their live show --- with Chris
and Andrew
side-by-side, simultaneously hammering their instruments, sweat flying
--- resides
in ten exquisitely constructed tracks. In the studio (Scott Solter's),
every
idea was given its voice; a range of guest instruments embellished the
core
magic of Andrew's vocals and keys and Chris' drums. All
Together embraces the
vocabulary of the band's experienced and obsessive recording language,
yet it
holds on to that unmistakable dynamism of their live performance.
"It
takes special musicians to make a sound like this work, but three LPs
into their career, Thiboldeaux and Ward seem to have it figured out,
creating an accessible album that nonetheless sounds unlike anything
any other band is doing." - Pitchfork
[7.9
rating]
"Indie-rock, with full blog support, is now the refuge for
the musicianly impulses of progressive rock. Pattern Is Movement,
a two-man band (drums and keyboards) from Philadelphia, records
mercurial songs that juggle Minimalist repetition, musical-theater
melodicism and progressive-rock asymmetries. But onstage, like duos
from Lightning Bolt to the Dresden Dolls, they happily pummeled the
music, vigorously knocking down any hint of effeteness." - New York Times
"Pattern
Is Movement deserve your worship ... Pattern Is Movement is
about patterns, in sound, flowing in and out of each other and tied by
odd-timed
segues and Andrew's theatrical tenor." [Read More] -
Stereogum
"...Nothing quite prepares listeners for All Together ...
Lilting, spacious, and dreamlike, the disc shows just how far
singer-keyboardist Andrew Thiboldeaux and drummer Chris Ward have come
..." - The Onion AV Club
"[All
Together]
is a record that breathes so deeply and vividly, you scarcely miss the
guitars.
Ward's drums bristle and explode under Thiboldeaux's daisy chains of
melodies,
which manage to sound different on every song ... All Together is due
out in
April and is poised to be the long-awaited breakthrough" [Read More]-
Philadelphia
Weekly's Cover Story
January 9, 2008
"Rich
layers of antique-inspired accents, erratic and driving drums, and
sweetly double-tracked vocals are wound tightly together at a
consistent and energetic pace. The clarity-filled formula is one that
works -- and the band's latest effort All Together
is epic and understated in its own right." - SPIN
"Pattern
is
Movement's latest album is one of those things that's starting (sadly)
to be
a relative rarity -- a winsome avant-pop album with rock roots that
actually
is a treat instead of an overfrosted wedding cake." - AMG
"Though the individual parts of All Together—the
distinctive vocals, repetitive refrains, keyboard bleeps and jabs,
laced with luscious strings and all held together by deconstructive
beats—seem primed for a challenging listen, the end result is
nothing of the sort....Each song is like a microcosmic journey, every
one colourful and distinct..." [8/10] - Pop Matters
Biography
Following
their first three records, endless shows and tours (among them dates
with friends
St. Vincent, David Bazan, and The Forms), and the transition from
five-to-four-to-three-to-two
members, Pattern is Movement turned themselves inside out and made the
record
we‘ve all been waiting for: All Together. Andrew Thiboldeaux
and Chris Ward
embody the two-man wall of sound; it‘s music that‘s
been a long time
building, rising out of the ether of left-behind evangelical childhoods
(see Jesus
Camp), best friendship (kindled as kids listening to The Chronic), and
life in
Philadelphia. All Together continues the mysterious narrative of the
band, both
documenting and foretelling the pounding energy of their near-legendary
live show:
Chris and Andrew side-by-side, hammering drums and keys (among other
things),
sweat flying, voices hollering. This is what resides in the ten
exquisitely constructed
tracks of All
Together, the kind of stuff
that compelled Stereogum to recently declare that "Pattern is Movement
deserve
your worship." The album, released by Hometapes, is packaged in a
deluxe wood-grained
wallet and includes a reproduced set of the antique photos that, found
on the
street in Philly, inspired each song.
Conact Info
US Booking
: Andrew Skikne at The Agency Group ..
| andrew (at) theagencygroup.com EuropeBooking: Felix Grimm
at Toutpartout
| felix (at) toutpartout.be Management:
Christine Sanley at Undertow | christine (at)
undertowmusic.com Press:
Team
Clermont | publicity (at) teamclermont.com Info:
Team PIM | info (at) patternismovement.com ..
you guys were awesome in jackson last sunday.. and it was cool seeing you dudes AGAIN!! at whataburger.. if you remember, we said we would be playing a show in the shirts we bought... theres proof on our page if you getsss bored.
It sounds like things is going a little bit crazy in your old toystore here, sounds so cool! Hope you like my demos too, (though it's still quite lo-fi, still hope you see the point in it) Anyways have a great summer! */Aske
if i was a pre-school teacher and your performance last night was a finger painting, then you would get a sticker of a gold star on that finger painting. thats how much i liked it.
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