The Pantones

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If longing and autumn and regret and redemption had a voice to sing with it would sound like the Pantones. A genuinely midwestern band with humble songs and stories told with the help of a rock band that contains trumpet, piano, glockenspiel, pedal steel and one of the finest rhythm sections around. Americana.indie.pop for the new breed and the old seed.

THE PANTONES: Sleepless Nights, Silent Mornings The Pantones are the self-professed leaders of a movement they've coined americana.indie.pop.

MATTHEW CARLSON AND THE PANTONES: Memory Is All The nation's leading arbitors of Americana.indie.pop

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"The songs are consistently good and in a fairer world THE PANTONES would get their day in the national press and their tunes into people's car stereos." - Whisperin' & Hollerin UK

" a great hidden gem of a record that deserves to be heard by more people."
- Richard Hughes, CD Times

"Think Sloan swapping exuberant Beatles for late-period Byrds, music that seems joyous in summer and longing in the winter." - Josh Stiechmann, The Current

"But most of all, it's the reinvented, polished-without- being-slick Pantones band sound that makes "Sleepless" the breakout CD for Carlson, and - for all the right reasons - is likely to deliver his songs to a much broader audience. - Chris Rietz, Lansing State Journal

"This is music that may just bring comfort during those sleepless nights and add empathetic sound to otherwise silent mornings." - Indie-Music.com

"Fans of the likes of Old 97s and The Vigilantes of Love will find plenty here to enjoy" - Americana UK

"It's all about sonic color, and the Pantones' sound is an eerily perfect match with Carlson's plaintive vocals: thick, understated, lending real emotional weight that the usual voice-and-strummed-guitar formula couldn't deliver." - LSJ

"Do yourself a favor and check out this band you've likely never heard of." - Glorious Noise

"The Pantones have crafted an album flooded with warmth . . . and achieves a sound not unlike that of indie faves such as Wilco and Red House Painters." - The State News

". . . nearly flawless, pretty without being boring." - Pop Matters

"A staggering debut." - All Music Guide

"If you are into anything from Ben Folds Five to The Palace Brothers, you may want to include this in your heavy rotation. " - Geek America

"Presents a nice stripped down Neil Young "Comes A Time" feel." - Amplifier Magazine

"A pleasing disc, best played under open skies." - Splendid Magazine

"Neo-pseudo country that makes me want a pony." - Hybrid Magazine

Member Since:

August 15, 2005

Members:

David Baldwin:
guitars, keyboards, trumpet and backing vocals

Matthew Carlson:
guitars and vocals

Joel Kuiper:
drums

Jacob McCarthy:
bass guitar and backing vocals


Pantone Alumni
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Mary Baldwin: violin and backing vocals
Paul Delamater: pedal steel, guitar, and backing vocals
Tim Lefevre drums, percussion, and bass guitar
Erin O'Bryant keyboards
Jeremy Rapp: pedal steel, guitar, banjo and mandolin

Influences:

Wilco
The Byrds
Iron and Wine
R.E.M.
The Beatles
The Kinks
The Velvet Underground
Will Oldham
Beulah
Simon and Garfunkel
Donovan
Nick Drake
The Shins
Ben Folds,
Paul McCartney
Neil Young
M. Ward
Neutral Milk Hotel
Red House Painters
American Analog Set
The Decemberists
Sufjan Stevens
Belle and Sebastian
Fruit Bats
there are many, many more who for now shall be omitted

Sounds Like:

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some songs after a four day bender with the Kinks.


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Record Label:

Phonophore Records