Ben Wilson - often by his lonesome, other times joined by:
Tom Thompson (pedal steel guitar, keys)
Brennan Pilkington (drums, meows)
Simon Wright (bass)
and when stars align:
Nicholas Dyson (trumpet)
Influences
Tom Verlaine, Mick Turner, My Bloody Valentine, FemBots, Jeremy Enigk, Sufjan Stevens, Yo La Tengo, Andrew Bird, Luna, Sonic Youth, Galaxie 500, Spoon, Versus, Yellow Jacket Avenger, John Southworth, Loney, Dear
Sounds Like
praise for Staying Places, so far!
"Shows off Wilson's skills behind the mixing desk as much as his songwriting ability...sleek guitar lines and deft changes of gear...breezy, wistful songs [that] share high-end production values with power pop bands like the Shins."
-Exclaim!
"Surprising and inventive songs that will mature greatly over multiple listens... [Wilson has] an astounding ear for song crafting. This is a spotless, near-perfect release. Maybe I've just fallen in love with it, but I can see this album staying just as strong over time as it is now."
- The Line of Best Fit (UK)
"...One of Wilson's most inspired projects to date...there's a softness to [the songs] that makes you want to listen to this album over and over again." SoundProof Magazine
"Lyrics float introspectively over dreamlike music...Simple melodies over excellent arrangements; this is great stuff."
- Bridging the Atlantic
"Staying Places is looking like an album that will turn a lot of heads."
-Herohill
"A distinctive pioneering spirit...That's The Spirit appears to have genuinely embraced a quiet determined-plodding-forward kind of hopefulness, which lends their music this uplifting quality...'Staying Places' is a delightful album, which has captured something of today's Zeitgeist."
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Two Way Monologues
"Gentle, melodic, mind-massages. Listen and drift slowly into a womb-like comfortable slumber."
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A New Band A Day (UK)
"Hazy folk-inspired tunes which feel just as much as home in your dreams as they would as a hearty meal-soup...very comforting."
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A Limerick Ox
There's also a great new article in 24hours magazine that sums our stuff up pretty well, which you can read on the antique room blog
'the blue of distance' live - band = ben wilson (vox, guit), tom thompson (pedal steel), brennan pilkington (drums), simon wright (bass), nicholas dyson (trumpet).
Staying Places, the brand new debut full-length, is now available on iTunes and Zunior ! - just click on one of these links below!:
In OTTAWA, you can now pick up the new CD Staying Places for $10 at:
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For bookings, please email bookings[at]antiqueroom[dot]ca
For a downloadable staying places lyric booklet, press kit, high-res photos and more info on that's the spirit, please visit the antique room website or email info[at]antiqueroom[dot]ca
If staying places isn't in stock at yr local record store, or if you're a record store that wants to carry it, please email distro[at]antiqueroom[dot]ca
visit that's the spirit on CBC radio3 and Last.fm . Scrobble me, or what have you.
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Hi! Staying Places is a travel-themed album, made 'for explorers and armchair travellers alike'... It was inspired by misadventures as much as adventures. Getting lost in a forest at midnight on a 5-day trek through southern England...Trying impossibly to walk out of cities...The very act of travel and the need to escape...
Thanks for listening. You can read this if you like.
Also, lyrics for Staying Places can be downloaded here.
Hello, That's The Spirit! Thank you so much for the nice words; we're super excited to meet you guys and see you play tomorrow! We will have facepaints. We think you guys should participate.
Hi, For those in Toronto during the next NXNE, I will be available for open and spontaneous meeting with musicians curious to learn about live music on Cirque du Soleil shows.
Ask for Claude, I will be there to answer your questions and give information: June 18- 19th / 4 to 7 o’clock Balzac’s Coffee Roastery 55 Mill Street, Building #60, Distillery District, Toronto
Everyone at indiecater records would like to wish you a happy summer and let you know that there is an indiepop song from the Very Most available to download FREE from our site!
hello aloha, coma stai? thanks for the add we appreciate it, thank you for taking me to a dreamy place, with eyes closed. thanks once again hope you can enjoy what we have to offer via internet. m.giuliani - the svens
Hey guys, it was great to play a show with you! We've been enjoying your cd, I especially like the song "always coming back" it's gorgeous! Cheers, Veronica
That was a great set at Rancho Relaxo. A mystical journey that blends traditional roots-folk with swirly neo-psych atmospherics. A boundary-crossing excursion designed to sooth, seduce, and sonically move you.
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