Jakob Thiesen - pots & pans; Sheila Sampath - farfisa, keyboards, singing; Ian Jackson - guitars; David Lush - guitars, singing, synth; Ali Sunderji - bass guitar
Influences
sarah records-style indie-pop records; old creation, 4AD & factory records; the aislers set; the clientele, the clean; josef k; the razorcuts; brittle stars; the wake; the bodines; mCcarthy; ecstacy & wine; the pale saints; moose; the cat's miaow; galaxie 500... reverb coils; stray cats; semi-colons; wind-up music boxes; tree-lined roads; crumbling buildings; city laneways and gardens; frosty mornings; sunny afternoons; and many of the excellent musical groups in our city, toronto.
Sounds Like
"...the ghost of some of the sweetest, most forlorn pop music you ever did hear."
We’d like to tell you that we write our songs in an abandoned airplane hangar, just to account for all the echoing, but that would be very untrue and a little fanciful. Instead, most of the songwriting occurs in the wee hours of the morning, travelling on a shivering bus to nowhere important. Because we are without sleep, we are well-acquainted with the mysterious feeling the city leaves you with when you walk out to the empty streets at 6am with the first few cars quietly puffing along. At this hour, the most comforting thing is a bubbling kettle for tea, or perhaps the little tunes that simmer up inside as you scurry down a chilly sidewalk; both offer a much needed warmth, for which we are equally thankful and dependent upon...
"Red Fox" video directed by Vitalyi Bulychev
"Red Fox" is available on Laneways, an e.p.
Our music is available on itunes:
Thank you for accepting our Request. We really love your music....your songs are the purest POP music with just the faintest hint of acidity....like good Chardonnay.
Consider us well and truly smitten!! Take care, ~TEC~
