ON THE RECORD: Aleksa Palladino & Devon Church - all & everything.
ON STAGE: Aleksa Palladino (Guitar, Keys & Vocals), Devon Church (Guitar, Keys & Vocals), Dave Mcfarland (Drums, Laptop, Percussion and Samples).
Influences
Sometimes the biggest influences are the hardest to pin down... This is just how we process our days.
Sounds Like
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"Left of center from most local LA indie rock and pop... A midnight carnival cavalcade, all throaty and dark and full of intrigue." - RADIO FREE SILVER LAKE ........................................................................................................................................................................
"EXITMUSIC wrapped my ears in crushed velvet before drenching them in wine. It was my first time seeing the new-gazers and all I can say is lush lush lush lush lush... Positively marvelous they were." - CLASSICAL GEEK THEATER ........................................................................................................................................................................
"Lush, dreamy, urbane—The sounds conjured by this married L.A. couple are reverb-drenched dirges both romantic and ominous." - METROMIX ........................................................................................................................................................................
"A breathy and sensuous undertow of seductive vocal coos and sample-flit dirge-rock enveloped by a fog of woozy guitar ambience, EXITMUSIC crafted some of the night’s most stunning twilight swoons of mood and songcraft, never sacrificing one for the other, but holding the audience in a swayed thrall with both." - WEB IN FRONT
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"8.8/10... Playing EXITMUSIC's debut The Decline Of The West is like washing in a passionate wall of emotion. Blissed out arrangements slowly build into heartbreaking, atmospherically suffocating sugar pills. The duo handle almost all of the instrumentation and share vocal duties, but the real treat is Aleksa's breathy vox weaving throughout the melancholy pocket orchestra's. Church adds a subtle amount of cocky dryness to offset The Decline Of The West's glazed charm, making the whole thing come off like a forlorn yet casually epic affair. In short, if you love dramatic/cinematic noise-pop, EXITMUSIC will delight. Without a doubt, this record wil be in the running for best DIY album of the year."
- THE BLACK AND WHITE MAGAZINE ........................................................................................................................................................................
"EXITMUSIC is really working for me right now. Off-kilter, post-punk atmospheric leanings, slurred vocals and a slow, moody aesthetic; this is what I want to hear right now. There's a dark meticulousness here that's heart-wrenching in an enchanting, hard-to-place sort of way... I love it. I love the extremeness of it all, the languorous, black and white nature of every strained song. EXITMUSIC sounds a little bit like old shoe gaze, a little bit like Radiohead, a lot like Galaxy 500 and Low. You get the idea. Listen to a few tracks and hunt this album down! Not to be missed ... I'm just at a loss for words now, and can't articulate its awesomeness appropriately." - BIBABIDI
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OUR CD IS FINALLY AVAILABLE ON CD BABY AND iTUNES!
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http://cdbaby.com/cd/thedeclineofthewest
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Devon and Aleksa met on a train ride across Canada. They drank coffee all night and argued about the existence of evil. They listened to early Bob Marley and Blood on the Tracks. They were 18 years old.
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Aleksa went home to New York City, where she worked as an actor. She told her mom she'd met the man she was going to marry. Her mom asked her where he was. She said she didn't know.
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Devon went home to Winnipeg, where he worked in a subterranean pool hall/crack den. He saw some strange, bad things there. At night he would walk home in the ridiculous cold through a snow-covered golf course. A thick mess of stars pressed down on him and he thought about her. He left town and went all the way around the world and finally wound up in New York City. He found Aleksa and they moved in together and started making music on Aleksa's four track.
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They moved to Los Angeles, bought a computer and began writing the music that would become EXITMUSIC. In 2004 they got married at a scenic overlook on Mullholand Drive. On their wedding night they drank champagne and made demo covers out of cardboard and glue and pictures they took at a train station photo-booth.
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Their new album, The Decline of the West, was entirely self-produced, engineered and recorded in various Los Angeles apartments. With zero prior knowledge of recording technique, Devon and Aleksa managed to coax from their cheap equipment a uniquely lush, sophisticated, arresting, sometimes massive, sometimes delicate, always endearingly lo-fi sound by sheer force of will.
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Aleksa Palladino is a critically-acclaimed actress who has starred in over 20 film and television roles, including her debut opposite Scarlett Johanson in the indie hit, 'Manny & Lo', 'The Adventure's of Sebastion Cole' with Adrien Grenier, Todd Solonsz's 'Storytelling,' and legendary director Sidney Lumet's 'Find Me Guilty'. In October of 2007, Aleksa stars alongside Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney and Marissa Tomei in Lumet's brilliant new film, 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'. She also appears with Henry Rollins in the second installment of the cult horror franchise 'Wrong Turn', and as Sybil Vane in the avant-garde adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', by maverick director Duncan Roy.
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Devon Church is rounding out EXITMUSIC's cinematic vision by writing screenplays about underground cities, 200-storey prisons, spiritual conmen, Emma Goldman, Helena Blavatsky, god in the form of a jellyfish, and the devil in the form of a tyrranical 1940's studio boss.
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"THE DECLINE OF THE WEST" directed by the great Matthew Wilder
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hey you lovely couple! we are playing a free show monday night at the Bordello, downtown with AI and That Noise. would be lovely to hang out! all the best, stephan
THANXXXXX it's cool to have real musicans with high calibar art such as your music aknowledge the common fan forget the 2 downloads ima buy the album as well i am forever your music slave fan guy hahahah thax so much for the aknowledgemts any time you guyzzzz :0
twas a big surprise for us too! wanted to invite you to our show tomorrow night, but then realized we couldn't post a comment...crisis averted. and now you know about our show :) hope you can make it!
BASICALLY YES THIS IS OWL! haha....I have been showing a lot of people your music, it's really fantastic. I started compiling a list in my head today about all the places it makes me think of!
