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"Radiohead meets Portishead in a living nightmare. Genius then. This is potentially one of the most effective couplings since Cave and Minogue. Dark, brooding and beautiful." _SUPERSWEET MAGAZINE
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"The freakishly talented duo of Aleksa Palladino & Devon Church gently led us into dreamtime and some 70 of us stood foot-rooted and mind-bent before a great bleak gout of loveliness. Their hyper-melodic post-postpunk always makes me think of two sweet kids strolling hand-in-hand into Armageddon, and the pair rolled out no less a deafening plaintive whimsy for us. It felt ennobling, as reverb roared and La Palladino warbled, “We are sparks of light, but we hide it” to suddenly bashful, suddenly human us."
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"A midnight carnival cavalcade, all throaty and dark and full of intrigue." _RADIO FREE SILVER LAKE .................................................................................................................................................
"Add EXITMUSIC to your list of bands that should be making headlines soon." _LA UNDERGROUND .................................................................................................................................................
"EXITMUSIC wrapped my ears in crushed velvet before drenching them in wine... All I can say is lush lush lush lush lush... Positively marvelous." _CLASSICAL GEEK THEATER .................................................................................................................................................
"Lush, dreamy, urbane—The sounds conjured by this married L.A. couple are reverb-drenched dirges both romantic and ominous." _METROMIX .................................................................................................................................................
"EXITMUSIC crafted 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 .................................................................................................................................................
"8.8/10... Playing EXITMUSIC's debut The Decline Of The West is like washing in a passionate wall of emotion. If you love dramatic/cinematic noise-pop, EXITMUSIC will delight. Without a doubt, this record will be in the running for best D.I.Y. album of the year." _THE_BLACK AND WHITE MAGAZINE .................................................................................................................................................
"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. 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 ALBUM IS AVAILABLE ON cdbaby.com AND iTUNES (& OTHER PLACES_)!
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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. 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 worked with great directors like Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, & Todd Solonsz, and starred alongside great actors like Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Marrisa Tomei, Paul Giamatti, Scarlett Johansen, & James Gandolfini. She recently landed a lead role on HBO's brand new dramatic series, Boardwalk Empire, which is to be executive produced and directed by Martin Scorcese.
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Devon Church writes short stories, screenplays, poems, essays, and anarchist polemics.
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David Mcfarland is Exitmusic's genius new drummer. He is also a cinematographer, and met Devon and Aleksa for the first time when he DP'd the oneiric 6 minute tracking-shot that is Exitmusic's 'The Decline of the West' video.
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We have you to thank. What a great evening. It was lacking a certain great band, but I think we all had fun. It was quite magical. Much love and respect to you. I am also thinking even more about adopting a pet.
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